obviously i didn t write the e mail so it s hard for me to comment. and if you flick back to the earlier bit of the e mail, i think as you can see from that, it clearly mentions a cabinet office process which is right and appropriate, but also, even when it talks about modelling on sectors, to bring that together with cmo thinking on the health impacts. even in that e mail, you can see, as i said, i didn t write it so i m not sure entirely what it s referring to, but it s clear that there is a cabinet office process that we are feeding into, cmo is feeding in and that s the right way for the prime minister to receive. , ., , , ., receive. there is no suggestion there should receive. there is no suggestion there should not receive. there is no suggestion there should not be receive. there is no suggestion there should not be a - receive. there is no suggestion there should not be a process, | receive. there is no suggestion - there should not be a process, there has to b
because they were never meant for public consumption in the aftermath, we were never meant to see them. but on a deeper level, whether there was a paper trail about some of these decisions, rishi sunak said basically that he didn t think there was a particular issue with that, it wasn t like he was trying to hide anything, but some of these conversations did take place in private. all this came up from an article that was written in the spectator magazine in the summer of last year, which was an interview that was done with rishi sunak at the time when he was a leadership contender. where he talked generally about how decisions were being made during the time. and i think it was quite an interesting insight into exactly that. let s hear a little bit from it now. exactly that. let s hear a little bit from it now. the author of the article says bit from it now. the author of the article says that bit from it now. the author of the article says that you bit from it now. t
would be a collapse and therefore you had to act? was there a detailed debate about the reality of the nhs, and whether or not in fact an alternative position could be taken, which wouldn t inevitably lead to the collapse of the nhs? i which wouldn t inevitably lead to the collapse of the nhs?- the collapse of the nhs? i can t specifically the collapse of the nhs? i can t specifically recall. the collapse of the nhs? i can t specifically recall. you - the collapse of the nhs? i can t specifically recall. you are - specifically recall. you are absolutely right, there was a lot of talk about icu and monitoring of icus, what was happening, and then you had the forecast from the scientific advisers with degrees of infection and hospitalisation and as far as i can remember, or i might confuse it with the later period, you could put the curves, here is the line of nhs capacity, here is the line of nhs capacity, here is the admissions. the line of nhs capacity, here is the admi
concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence in concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence in relation i to why you suggested at an earlier stage there were comparisons between swine flu and you have described the importance to you of not talking the economy down. the first line, he doesn t think anything can be done, may ijust ask doesn t think anything can be done, may i just ask you, this doesn t think anything can be done, may ijust ask you, this date the 3rd of march comes after your meeting with the civil contingency secretariat, after the cobra of which there is some early debate about measures and what can be done, and if you did say on the 3rd of march two mr cummings i don t think anything can be done, that casts a very significant light upon what you were being told around that time. i cannot say exactly what i said to my adviser, cannot say exactly what i said to my a
around the government s plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda, which you remember faced a send some asylum seekers to rwanda, which you rememberfaced a number of legal challenges as soon as they were introduced more than a year and a half ago. the government is expected to introduce a bill that ministers say it will aim to block the legal challenges. there is debate within the conservative party about how far that bill should go, what that bill should include. the first thing is, suella braverman saying, it must come in her view, to supply the european convention on human rights. the second thing, suella braverman was sacked by rishi sunak as home secretary and since then she has really been seen as a potential flag then she has really been seen as a potentialflag bearer then she has really been seen as a potential flag bearer for the then she has really been seen as a potentialflag bearerfor the right potential flag bearer for the right of potentialflag bearerfor the r