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Sunak 'Deeply Sorry' to Those Who Suffered During Covid Pandemic
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December 11, 2023
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0:41Now PlayingBoris Johnson’s government didn’t level with the public about economic trade-offs around Covid-19 lockdowns, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the UK’s pandemic inquiry, as he distanced himself from scientists’ warnings over the risks of easing stay-at-home orders in early summer 2020.
When the coronavirus hit early that year, the government initially failed to set out the broader implications for the economy, education and mental health of shutting down activity, Sunak said in long-awaited evidence on Monday.
The government’s communications strategy “wanted to simplify things, because we were dealing with something that was unprecedented, we didn’t know how people would respond, behave, comply,” Sunak told the inquiry. But it came “at the cost of not having from the beginning a broader conversation about the other impacts on other walks of life,” he said.
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