It’s taken a while, but Ivan Yates has finally gone, as he says himself, ‘full-on Ivan Yates’. ‘As far as Golfgate is concerned, first of all you’ve got to see my own baggage on this issue,’ he says, sitting forward while pulling the sleeves of his sharply cut navy blazer.
The 61-year-old is getting serious. ‘I believe that if China exported the virus, it was not half as damaging as lockdown. In other words, lockdown is something that is repugnant to my whole being of living, not in a Chinese or Russian society, but living in a liberal democracy. ‘I was totally opposed to lockdown, I much prefer the Swedish model.
I believed that the outsourcing to NPHET of the whole running of the country was a disgrace, an abrogation of policy. ‘Forty
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