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It is a fact that comparing the simple number of deaths across nations tells you less than the whole story. Britain and Italy differ for instance in size of population and density of the biggest city. There may be differences too in the skill with which numbers are collected. But the bald fact is that the official figure now puts the UK at the top of the European death league. And there are questions about our treatment of care home residents, about our decisions to stop testing and following up those tests widely in mid-march, about our refusal to close our borders as other nations did. And of course the resignation of professor Neil Ferguson - a key member of the government's scientific advisory team, is an unwelcome distraction.

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