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Eat Out to Help Out was not a seen as a ‘gamble’ at the time, Boris Johnson told the Covid-19 inquiry.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be challenged about his actions as chancellor at the height of the pandemic.

The former prime minister said he was not ‘reconciled’ to Covid deaths or thought it wise to ‘let it rip’ in the autumn of 2020.

Boris Johnson will face a second day of questioning at the COVID inquiry today following his five hour quizzing on Wednesday.

The former prime minister says he offered counter arguments but ultimately acted to curb Covid.

Boris Johnson revealed that Chris Whitty called Rishi Sunak’s scheme “Eat Out to Help Out...the virus.” Hugo Keith questioned the scheme’s rationale during the second day of the former Prime Minister’s Covid inquiry grilling on Thursday 7 December. “Chris says ‘this is ‘Eat Out to Help Out... the virus’, and I thought, that’s funny,” Mr Johnson told the inquiry. “It seemed to me odd that the scientists hadn’t been made aware of it,” he added, conceding that no scient...

Boris Johnson was reluctant to meet Arlene Foster, Michelle O’Neill and the leaders of the other devolved UK governments during the pandemic because he thought it would be like a “mini EU”.

Rishi Sunak will be questioned about his actions during the coronavirus pandemic when he appears before the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Monday. The British prime minister was chancellor during the crisis and

Eat Out to Help Out was not a seen as a ‘gamble’ at the time, Boris Johnson told the Covid-19 inquiry.

Eat Out to Help Out was not a seen as a ‘gamble’ at the time, Boris Johnson told the Covid-19 inquiry.