good afternoon. at the covid inquiry, the prime minister, rishi sunak, has apologised to all those who suffered as a result of the government s decisions during the pandemic. he s also expected to face questions about his controversial eat out to help out scheme, aimed at helping the hospitality sector. scientific advisers have already told the inquiry they didn t know about the plan until it was announced and there were concerns it would spread the virus. our political correspondent pete saull has been watching. it was at news conferences like this that many of us got to know rishi sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before sunak. he had been promoted to chancellor just before a sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before a global pandemic struck. of course a lot of politics has happened since then. he has moved from number 11 to number ten and this morning made the trip across london for a grilling of his actions at the time of covid. quite something to
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