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OPINION - 'We're not in lockdown, we should all be spending more time working together in office,' civil servants told

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The fourth anniversary of the first UK-wide Covid-19 lockdown has just passed.

I don’t need to remind anyone how severe that time was for Londoners, or how - as Tube trains stood empty and Oxford Street heard no footfall - we all had to change how we lived and how we worked. 

Today, our lives have mostly returned to how, yet some parts of society still bear the marks of our . One of those places is the and the wider public sector, where there is one lockdown habit remaining which we must act on:

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