Sky News' Sam Coates has analysed why BoJo has made all these U-turns. Whilst many have speculated about the power wielded over him by Dominic Cummings, it appears that Nicola Sturgeon is the one to credit for these u-turns.
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But there is one common denominator which runs through too many of the U-turns to be ignored, and hints at a bigger neuralgia in government: nervousness about being outflanked by Nicola Sturgeon.
The pattern is easy to see. Tuesday's mask U-turn came after Scotland's first minister had also announced schools north of the border would require masks at the start of the week.
Ms Sturgeon abandoned the exam algorithm more than a week before Mr Johnson followed suit.
Free school meals were extended for further months by Ms Sturgeon weeks before Tory MPs joined a coalition forcing ministers to change tack in Westminster.
Masks in shops were required by Ms Sturgeon north of the border for less than a month before Mr Johnson copied that too.
Meanwhile, one of the biggest moments of political heat for the PM came in May was when he abandoned the "stay at home" slogan in England, while the governments of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland refused to follow suit.
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