relax aches to say we were going to relax aches to say we were going to relax the rules on social distancing for, for kids, for young people, would have been a very very peculiar signal to send out at the very moment when we were trying to get, we were desperately trying to get the existing measures to work and we were on the point of toughening them up. so i think that probably explains, that probably answers the, your question. explains, that probably answers the, your question- your question. what you are saying is that matt your question. what you are saying is that matt hancock your question. what you are saying is that matt hancock was your question. what you are saying is that matt hancock was right - your question. what you are saying | is that matt hancock was right when he said. is that matt hancock was right when he said. to is that matt hancock was right when he said, to helen waitfully this exchange, that number ten doesn t want to exchange, that numb
were having to do things that in future ought to be done by other departments or at the centre because it should have been a whole government response earlier. that is my reflection. and what about after the end of february when the cross government machine ramps up on the scale of the crisis is understood and steps have to be taken? to what extent had the department for health and social are got on top of promoting or suggesting the sort of countermeasures and infection control that ultimately were at the heart of the government response? from the end of february when the prime minister took the chair of cobra which was symbolically very important, when the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster got stuck in and you heard from him how he came to a cobra, was alarmed, asked some very good questions, followed that “p very good questions, followed that up with me and from. you might thinki up with me and from. you might think i was unhappy to receive that e mail on those questi
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communications plan for coronavirus, thatis communications plan for coronavirus, that is what that reference was recording hancock and co. and also, as you know there is an e mail from, on 25th february, i was saying where are all of these red teams, where is this testing and what not that hancock promised us existed, where are the documents and we at number ten were starting to get a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the fact that the first wave of all the fact that the first wave of all the communications plans. you say the communications plans. you say the system the communications plans. you say the system didn t the communications plans. you say the system didn t push the communications plans. you say the system didn t push him - the communications plans. you say the system didn t push him to - the communications plans. you say| the system didn t push him to come back, didn t regard it as crisis, but, you were part o