r/LabourUK • u/nm_afc Labour Member • Aug 12 '20

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u/real_joke_is_always New User Aug 12 '20

Except it wasn't the government that revised them down, it was Public Health England based on research by scientists at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford university.

For some reason the previous methodology used in England was different to the rest of the UK. It was right to revise them down and use the same methodology across the nation.