The Treasury admits it holds internal lockdown cost-benefit analyses, but is refusing to publish them.

As part of an FOI investigation in collaboration with Lewis Brackpool, we asked HM Treasury for any internal modelling comparing the economic damage of lockdowns to lives saved.

Here’s what they admitted:

1. They do hold this data, internal cost-benefit assessments from 2020–2022.

2. They are withholding it under Section 36(2)(c), claiming disclosure would “prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs.”

3. According to the Treasury, these documents are being submitted as evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, and they argue that releasing them now might undermine that process.

This is a significant admission. For years, sceptics and campaigners, including Together, asked whether this analysis was ever done. Many feared it was hidden or never conducted.

DIGITAL ID: This idea seems to be yet another undemocratic solution in search of a problem

✅ YES to Digital Bill of Rights
⛔️ NO to Digital ID

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"During Covid, there were many factors within our control that could have prevented so many unnecessary deaths"

Leandra Ashton from co founder of The People’s Care Watchdog, will be speaking on our livestream TOMORROW 7pm

Link coming at this URL: https://togetherdeclaration.org/livestream

FREE SPEECH: "We either have it or we don't. In a free society, you're not free not to be offended — we're not children."

We must have the freedom to discuss and challenge ideas in order to progress as a society, or none of us are truly free.

We must defend free speech #together

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"We're not censoring anyone" - Keir Starmer

Repeal the Online "Safety" Act

ONLINE SAFETY ACT: "Britain is descending rapidly into some sort of dystopia" (Zia Yusuf)

Under the guise of 'safety', this will be anything but safe

What it really means is silencing dissenting voices and moving closer to authoritarianism and a dystopian future

Ofcom we don’t want your censorship

We must fight for freedom of speech #together

NET ZERO: Trump is absolutely correct about this

We could have abundant cheap energy in the UK

Instead we have Ed Miliband & Keir Starmer destroying our economy and making bills high for all with a senseless Net Zero quest most of the world couldn't care less about

DIGITAL ID: "They constantly want to manage and control us, as they think we're all mad, bad, and dangerous" (Alan Miller)

⛔️ NO to Digital ID
✅ YES to Digital Bill of Rights

Contact your MP: https://together.eaction.org.uk/digitalid

The Labour MPs pushing Digital ID

Recently 40 Labour MPs wrote an open letter to the Starmer govt promoting “an ambitious digital ID programme”

Here’s the list. Many are new MPs. At least 15 are especially vulnerable to losing their seats next election:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/the-labour-mps-pushing-digital-id/

"I witnessed my mum shrink from a size 14 to a 6 within a year because she did not receive the care and medical attention she needed" (Amanda Hunter)

Amanda Hunter, Together Cabinet for Social Care for #Together, will be speaking on our livestream TONIGHT!

Watch here: https://togetherdeclaration.org/livestream

Facial recognition is becoming a cornerstone of a surveillance system that’s steadily expanding its reach — tracking, restricting, and controlling ordinary people.

No public consent. No open discussion. Yet it’s accelerating — along with two-tier policing and the silencing of dissent.

We must reject this slide into a digital dystopia - it’s time for a Digital Bill of Rights.

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ONLINE SAFETY ACT: "We're plunging this country into a China style surveillance state!" (Zia Yusuf)

Repeal the Online "Safety" Act

Ofcom we don't want your censorship

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CARE: What was covered - and covered up - in UK Covid Inquiry?

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CARE: What was covered - and covered up - in UK Covid Inquiry?

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FLASHBACK: We were warning about the Online Safety Bill (now Act) over 3 years ago

We warned we were in a huge battle for free speech - and so it has proved

Get behind our campaign for a Digital Bill of Rights to protect our freedoms in a digital age

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The fight for freedom, fundamental rights and democracy needs YOU!

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"Every person should be worried about the centralisation of power, & the use of technology to strip basic rights from citizens.

"All the emerging tech could be used to enslave the population, really easily... everyone should be freaked out about that"

This is why we need a Digital Bill of Rights

(Tucker Carlson) (Ana Kasparian)

DIGITAL ID: "You NEED the data!" – Tony Blair

Disturbing comments like this are exactly why we need a Digital Bill of Rights

Governments already overstepped during Covid

They’re now gearing up to do it again — only this time, with better tools with a digital ID

⛔️ NO to Digital ID
✅ YES to Digital Bill of Rights

We must fightback!