strong relationships, institutional and personal with the devolved administrations and spent time with each of theirfirst administrations and spent time with each of their first ministers, told them i was there cabinet secretary as well. they should think of me and supporting them as well. i wanted to make sure that the devolved administrations, recognising the different districts, the more collaboration the better. the devolved administrations were invited to attend the groups. was that a writer an invitation? it would be an invitation. cabinet committees do not normally involve devolved administrations for obvious reasons. they weren t included routinely in the international one because that is entirely preserved, but they were asked to join the others. and the expectation was that they were included. it wasn tjust they were included. it wasn tjust they would be invited ad hoc, they were part of that process. that was very much the intention. find were part of that process
thatis build up that social mixing. now, that is fine if you are intent on never having to do suppression measures again. but, from all of the evidence we have received from all of the advice that we have received, it was incredibly clear we were certainly going to have to do suppression measures again. we knew that all the way through. that was from the start. so, to then move forward and say, were going to get back into work when business wasn t even asking for people to come back into work, they were encouraging employees to stay at home, still. we developed all of these tools for remote working. but it was governments on its own demanding people go to work when the research we had were saying people were still quite cautious, businesses do not want to do it. the scientific opinion was that we would have to have another lockdown. to me it made absolutely no sense whatsoever why we were talking about getting everyone back to work and that were the stories that ended up bein