Is the Covid Inquiry coming for Rishi Sunak?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In the past couple of days, the Covid Inquiry has seen the two most powerful scientists in the country during the height of the pandemic - Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance - give evidence.
What they've said has intensified the spotlight on Rishi Sunak - the architect of Eat Out to Help Out - of which testimony has revealed scientists weren't aware before the scheme was rolled out. Is this intensifying the pressure on the PM?
And, ahead of the budget - tax cuts. But what kind? Are they politically motivated? And will they actually leave you better off?
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| 0:12.3 | The Prime Minister had a difficulty in reaching clear, consistent positions. |
| 0:20.6 | Did you observe that? Because, of course, you were there? |
| 0:25.1 | I think that the way that Mr. Johnson took decisions was unique to him. |
| 0:34.1 | Well, now, if I may interrupt that, that's a euphemism, if I've heard it. |
| 0:38.3 | What do you mean by that? |
| 0:40.3 | Well, I mean, he has a quite distinct style. |
| 0:43.5 | But I think lots of other people... |
| 0:44.5 | That, as you can probably hear, is not Dominic Cummings. |
| 0:48.1 | It's Chris Witty, the chief medical officer who was taking us through his testimony to the COVID inquiry and he is at such |
| 0:57.2 | pains there to try not to implicate the people he was working with too closely and as he does so |
| 1:06.1 | he basically throws them under a bus. Exactly. Whilst other witnesses before this committee |
| 1:12.2 | have gone in armed with chainsaws, machetes and machine guns, |
| 1:16.4 | he brought with him a feather duster today. |
| 1:18.2 | But that doesn't make his testimony any less important |
| 1:22.3 | because people are hanging on his every word |
| 1:25.2 | because this is so vital for the government's reputation at the end of it. |
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