Can't agree with you at all.
What drives him is power
When Mayor of London, his goal was best served by backing remain. When seeking to become PM, he took a calculated risk on his new wider consitutency backing leave. It worked.
The personal freedom stuff. I doubt he gives a monkeys what...
But the European research group and the covid research group, are of course made up of entirely different people. People who love nothing more than researching things. :)
Very hard to accurately identify where someone caught COVID.
Someone who wet to a pub last summer, might have gone on a train to get there or to a kebab house after, or gone home to see their Mrs who has been at the supermarket
How do you say exactly where you got it?
Tim Martin can't know...