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Sunak under pressure to come clean as Covid inquiry hears ‘politics’ drove public messaging
Rishi Sunak, then Chancellor, places an Eat Out to Help Out sticker in the window of a business during a visit to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, August 7, 2020
RISHI SUNAK will come under pressure on Friday to explain why he ignored expert warnings during the pandemic, after the Covid inquiry heard politics drove government’s public messaging about the virus.
TUC assistant general secretary Kate Bell is giving evidence to the hearing this morning and has said the Prime Minister has “serious questions to answer” after the Treasury “massively undermined” Britain’s public health effort.
“It pushed up infection rates, put a huge strain on our public services and ballooned the cost of Test and Trace,” she said.
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