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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 p ....
trying to get to it at what point should have everyone been worried about coronavirus? and at what point was everyone worried about coronavirus? so i think it s this idea, i think we are building up to it with some of the questioning now or shortly before the break. at what point were people starting to worry and should they have been worried? the focus continues to be on the former prime minister borisjohnson. during the course of this inquiry, he has been criticised for what people say were a poor decision making, his lack of attention. today, lord sedwill questioning whether he was just making a lot of these decisions by himself and not involving the cabinet. they haven t been many people during the course of this inquiry who have been defending the former prime minister. no. and maybe he is an easy target because he is no longer prime minister. i think some of the criticism has been slightly nuanced to be for example, borisjohnson s former director of communications ....
appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park. the other big story this week, though, has been the quite eye popping testimony at the public inquiry into how the government handled various phases of the covid epidemic. and, i mean, it has massively, massively taken me back to those scary, uncertain days in early spring 2020. and i spent a lot of those days sat in this very studio and the person sat across from me and being very reassuring at all times was laura k, who s back in the studio. not in the studio. no, i m not. but i m logistically distanced today, not socially distanced. and i m very pleased to hear that i was reassuring back in those early days of march 2020. you were one of the only people i saw! well, i m pleased. well, it was very nice. we were a tiny little band of people, carrying on, trying to do ourjobs as everybody wondered what on earth was going on. and it s been a very strange experience watching this, hasn t it? because ....
hang on a second, if you actually fall law the logic of what plan a is it will be a catastrophe follow. and we have to ask these questions and consider an alternative plan b, but before that, there was no debate about this, it was just assumed. there was a debate at the scientific level, between mitigation and suppression, but it may be than that debate and the merits of mitigation versus suppression simply didn t reach your level in government. you weren t aware the scientists were debating the pros and cons of mitigation. {iii debating the pros and cons of mitigation- mitigation. of course it was discussed mitigation. of course it was discussed bier mitigation. of course it was discussed bier people, - mitigation. of course it was discussed bier people, but| mitigation. of course it was i discussed bier people, but as mitigation. of course it was - discussed bier people, but as you see in all of the sage and dh documents, the assumption was that it was simply comple ....
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