Boris's "achievements" amount to "getting Brexit done" (the ultimate gesture) and sending Liz Truss out to prevent nuclear war. Oh, and opening the odd bottle of plonk, obvs.
The funny thing is I have been to Auckland airport, albeit back in 2002. It was no Heathrow.
We're talking a comparison of 5 terminals, people flying to Heathrow to fly to other places (it's a transit hub, Auckland is a destination) people flying in from China and Milan even as we locked down...
Germany is the real example for the UK to look at and go "well maybe we should have....."
What NZ doesn't have (and I claim no credit for this thought, I simply agree with Billy the Fish ) is a massive hub airport. Our biggest threat of a second wave doesn't come from thirty odd teenagers sat...