Why are parents still scared to send their children back to school? Ask Boris Johnson | Simon Jenkins

The prime minister’s bluster, deception and bombast have ill-prepared the nation for recovery from the coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage

England’s schools must reopen. That is abundantly clear. The medical advice is that this is safe, within all reasonable bounds of risk, and that keeping children out of school is the true harm. Throughout the pandemic, more have died in suicides, fights and accidents at home than of Covid-19. Infection passed to old...