appeal from north wales location was known, and so we had an appealfrom north wales police, social media posts, from the boys families, from a show where they were studying, to say that they were very concerned. and we know that the silver ford fiesta has been the cover further up that road. we have heard from a crystal, crystal, one of the mothers of the boys. she said that she did not know that they would come here to north wales. she has been frantically worried. he was a student at shrewsbury college, hassan, we believe. he left home on saturday night, but they did not know he was coming here, they thought he was going somewhere else. they have been tearing their hair out over the past 2a hours or so, as soon as it became clear that they had come to north wales, and secondly that they had disappeared. there was no contact with them at all since that sighting. since the telecommunications that happened. that was a mackie. in a s chief mike chris whitley has been giving
giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to be | that was inevitable. i want to be clear about this. principal decision makers in government, prime minister, the then secretary of state for health, duchy of lancaster, for example, nor in my view did that apply to the majority of political leaders, but there were some who chose their sites they wanted to hear, put it that way, and there were optical commentators whose view of the site started with what was my political position and then derive from that. in terms of decision makers in the decisions taken during covid in the uk, my view is, they were not intending to cherry pick, they may have done so by accident, it was not by design. you obviously spent a great deal of time in you obviously spent a great deal of time
like sars which looked unlikely at this stage, but if it was, for the sake of argument, the point is to make sure that any spill over cases can be rapidly contained so it never establishes itself in the uk. you are not saying this will turn into a pandemic, but what we don t want to say is have any backwash from this. we had importation from sars and ebola, we picked them up and treated them, and that is the first thing to say, and if it is going to be a pandemic, you can never stop it, and there is an illusion you can stop it, but you can t. you can delay it and that is where a lot of the debate around border and other measures then took us but what we wanted people to realise, when you are in pandemic territory, the idea of stopping it is an illusion. you can delay it, potentially, maybe. when you referred to the minority being when you referred to the minority being prevent, you mean that the virus being prevent, you mean that the virus could being prevent, you mean
societal issues as sage was doing for the scientific issues? there is a strong case for having the technical economic advice remembering economic advisers often market sensitive. me transparently available to people and, where it is for experts to challenge it, there is a case to be made. my suspicion is a case to be made. my suspicion is this is one that the treasury are fairly unlikely to want to but that is for a large number of legitimate reasons. but, you know, what you say is correct, it would, however, the one bit of what you said i would just be a little bit more cautious of is the idea that the science advice would be trumped by the economic advice. my view is political leadership take both bits of advice and then they should balance them. in a sense that is theirjob, not mine. i balance them. in a sense that is theirjob, not mine. balance them. in a sense that is theirjob, not mine. their “ob, not mine. i have refer to that theirjob, not mine. i have refer to tha
border because in terms of the merits of border measures, evidence has been received border measures, evidence has been received by border measures, evidence has been received by the inquiry to the fact that less received by the inquiry to the fact that less stringent measures like screening that less stringent measures like screening and leaflets and temperature checks are unlikely to work because they can be circumnavigated. practical difficulties with any border system of restriction. scientifically, there of restriction. scientifically, there was no support for complete trorder there was no support for complete border closure or quarantine because they are border closure or quarantine because they are very difficult to maintain and politically divisive and also unlikely and politically divisive and also unlikely to work? and politically divisive and also unlikely to work? yes, in a sense the technical unlikely to work? yes, in a sense the technicaljudgmen