Extract from an article on the efficacy of lockdowns on death rates in UK, England dropped most restrictions while Wales, NI and Scotland kept restrictions in place.
But what we can do is to compare Covid death rates in England, where most restrictions were lifted on 19 July until Plan B came in last month, with death rates in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where tougher restrictions outlasted those in England. In Scotland, the mask mandate was never lifted. Vaccine passports for large venues were introduced in the country on 1 October last year, in Wales on 11 October and in Northern Ireland on 29 November. On work-from-home guidance (reintroduced last month), Wales was militant — it became a criminal offence to go to work if you could feasibly do your job at home. Northern Ireland retained restrictions on the number of people who could meet indoors.
And the results? Since 19 July, England has had 21,098 Covid deaths — a rate of 37.3 per 100,000 people. Wales had 1,195, a rate of 37.7, Scotland had 2,422, a rate of 44.3 and Northern Ireland had 914, a rate of 48.2.
Here is link to article - behind a paywall but try it..
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/did-plan-b-work-
Oops missed this one.
Again you are conflating "lockdowns" with "restrictions" or even "precautions"
The prevalence of covid and hence the highest death rate has moved around the UK. Sometimes highest in London, sometimes higher in other regions of England, sometimes higher in Scotland Wales or NI.
Perhaps your Spectator article writer (Ross Clark again) has selectively chosen a period when prevalence was higher in Scotland and Wales than England.
I don't know where he got his figures for the period quoted ( I could only find total deaths up to the present date) but if you take the pandemic as a whole there have been until today according to official figures
134875 deaths in England, 10275 deaths in Scotland, 6804 in Wales and3100 in NI
Taking the populations as 56.55 million for England 5.4 million in Scotland, 3.1million for Wales and 1.8 million for NI gives figures of
2400 per million for England 1900 per million for Scotland 2160 per million for Wales and 1720 per million for NI.
(If anyone can find the number of deaths in the four countries up to the 19th of July, we could check Mr Clark's figures)
Most of the policy has been dictated by the UK government which controls the money.
The devolved governments could only deviate slightly.
What is worse is comparing the UK death rate per million with other countries on worldometer.
Given the advantages the UK has had with the vaccination programme the UK has not fared well.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/Edit changed link
Edit added bit in brackets.