It'd be like assessing Notts performance before, during, after, and between games, like we all do all the time? Yes I suppose it would.
Ok so we can't comment on the actual government either at all, because it's unpatriotic, or until the Covid emergency is over.
Even then people who don't like the government (usual suspects) can't criticise it, because they always criticise it. Only people who never criticise it should be able to criticise it, but they never criticise it.
We can however comment on Diane Abbott's hypothetical management of the crisis in the parallel reality in which she is part of a hypothetical government led by Jeremy Corbyn.
The more I read these opinions the more I come to the conclusion they are just bizarre excuses designed to absolve Boris Johnson of blame at any cost.