Nope. It was wide open for Christmas Day.
Source: Being in UK.
Source: Being in UK.
Source: Being in London during Christmas.
Also from the article:
"London saw wild scenes of a weekend mass exodus before the start of a Christmas lockdown and travel ban sparked by a new, more infectious mutation of COVID-19."
Source: living in (what was at the time) a tier 4 area
The issue is the new strain, clearly. Cases were growing even during the November lockdown.
Wasn’t Kent the first place things started to really kick off and take a turn in mid Nov?
Little weird to be getting to -1 downvotes for something that's a google away...
London and the SE is where the new highly infectious strain originated from and was more or less entirely locked down. Big chunk of population here too...