The inquiry is beginning with preparations for the pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Last week the counsel to the inquiry Hugo Keith said that Britain was taken by surprise by many aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and had not considered policies such as lockdown and shielding in advance.
It could prove a headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was finance minister during the pandemic andHowever, the inquiry is beginning with preparations for the pandemic and so Mr Cameron is the first politician to give evidence to the inquiry, although his“Much more time was spent on pandemic flu and the dangers of pandemic flu rather than on potential pandemics of other, more respiratory diseases like Covid turned out to be,” Mr Cameron, who was prime minister from 2010-2016, told the...
“When you think: what would be different if more time had been spent on a high-infectious asymptomatic pandemic, different recommendations would’ve been made about what was necessary to prepare for.” Mr Cameron’s finance minister George Osborne will testify on Tuesday, while Mr Jeremy Hunt, the current finance minister and health minister under Mr Cameron, will give evidence on Wednesday. REUTERS
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