Boris ruined any effects of the first total lockdown by encouraging people to Eat to Help Out. Not only did it start the spread again, it gave people false hope that the end of the pandemic was in sight. He is a very weak leader and you don't need to dig up anyone to compare; Nichola Sturgeon would have done a better job, because, unlike Boris, she could'na care a hooli who likes her or who hates her she just gets on with the job.
When he announced this lockdown, apart from being a few hours late, did he address the Nation before then explain why he had come to the decision? No, he did not, he shoved the scientists into the front line to soften everyone up (bore them to death more like) with graphs that meant nothing to anyone who didn't possess a degree in Statistics, then almost apologised for the decision to lockdown - well it's not really my fault it's the Scientists that made me. He is a disgrace of a leader, this is not a political opinion as I lean more to the right than the left, but frankly the 'Tories have no alternative