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Welcome to another edition of Head to Head, the new debating show, which is getting people very excited up and down the country here at Talk Radio TV.

What we're trying to do is put the biggest brains in front of you so that they can argue with each other and leave you to form your own opinions on some of the big stories of the day.

We're going to talk now to Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, and also the editor of lockdown skeptics against Christopher Snowden from the Institute of Economic Affairs.

They've both engaged quite recently in various different episodes on social media about the lockdown, about the way the government's been operating, about the things that the government is now suggesting that it does.

Let me say welcome to both of you. Thank you so much for joining us, guys. We're going to try and keep it as civil as possible, but if you feel like insulting each other, that's okay too. It's going out on YouTube, obviously. So there isn't too much censoriousness going on.

But, Christopher, let me set you up first with your opening statement.

The question, I suppose, we're going to be trying to solve here is, has the government done the right thing?

Is the government doing the right thing?

Or has the government made a complete and utter hash of all of it?

I think at the moment the government is doing broadly the right thing. I think it's

policy, it's roadmap, getting out of lockdown is a bit too slow, but we'll see about that.

If we start pulling data, then it might come out of it, I think, quicker. But in terms of,

should it induce the lockdown in the first place, I think it absolutely

had no choice.

Now, this is a fairly serious disease.

It kills about one and a hundred people who get it.

It hospitalises about three and a hundred people who get it.

It has a very pernicious habit of, one of the most dangerous things about it is it has a very long incubation period.

That means it can spread very, very rapidly because people simply don't know they have it until it's too late,

they don't know if their local area is invested within until it's too late.

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