A recent inquiry into Britain’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a concerning quote from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, according to the Times of India.
According to Patrick Vallance, the former chief scientific adviser to the government, then-finance minister Sunak during a meeting with then-prime minister Boris Johnson, reportedly said that the government should “just let people die” rather than impose a second national lockdown.
Vallance made a note of the meeting in his diary on October 25, 2020, which was presented to the inquiry on Monday.
The diary also recorded how Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s most senior adviser during the pandemic, relayed to Vallance what he had heard at the meeting.
Vallance quoted Cummings in his diary as saying: “Rishi thinks just let people die and that’s okay. This all feels like a complete lack of leadership.”
