tella s more about the detail of what was happening in the cabinet and the disagreements there. he talks and the disagreements there. he: talks about how and the disagreements there. he talks about how boris johnson wasn t talks about how borisjohnson wasn t really in charge, key decisions were being taken by dominic cummings. you may say it s not a massive surprise, he was the chancellor in the early 2020 and resigned in february 2020 after a very public row with dominic cummings. it may not come as a prize he was critical of borisjohnson s chief adviser. it paints a picture, you and i have spoken about it, this picture of ks and dysfunctionality in number ten. we will get more of this. he talked about how the cabinet was less experienced than previous governments. we will be hearing about his time as chancellor in the run up, the early part of the pandemic, but he was a health secretary following matt hancock in the spring of 2021. matt hancock resigned following a scandal
rishi sunak, now prime minister, then chancellor, had launched the eat out to help out scheme to get people back into restaurants and pubs over that first summer of covid in 2020. but he had not consulted them before launching that. clearly, they made it clear, they took something of a dim view of that. that was last week, that was the science, this week we are back with the politicians. today, starting this morning with sadiq khan, mayor of london, and we also have mayors from the north west of england, steve rotherham, liverpool, greater manchester, andy burnham, couple of elements there, remember, there were restrictions brought in on a hot dry basis initially in the autumn of 2020 to effectively try to play wacko mole as hotspots popped up. that then gave way to a more structured tiers system which was supposed to solve some of the regularities and standardise the procedure across the country. i suspect we will get into a lot of that, plus other questions like sadiq khan
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public confidence, what can be done about travel restrictions and proportionality, the seriousness of the crisis by the 4th of february doesn t appear to be reflected in that debate. i doesn t appear to be reflected in that debate- that debate. i think it is a seriousness that debate. i think it is a seriousness of that debate. i think it is a seriousness of a - that debate. i think it is a seriousness of a crisis - that debate. i think it is a | seriousness of a crisis that that debate. i think it is a i seriousness of a crisis that it became but it wasn t apparent at that time. there had been a cabinet meeting on the 31st of january in which, if i remember correctly, the chief medical officer as well as a health secretary and the health secretary, and at that time the advice was the probability of the worst case, reasonable worst case was about io%. and so what you see here is a good summary of a brief discussion. the purpose of the meeting was a bilateral about the ma