Covid Inquiry: Sunak defends Eat Out to Help Out scheme

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Rishi Sunak has defended not consulting scientists or the Secretary of State for Health over his Eat Out to Help Out scheme in 2020.
48% : In relation to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as lockdowns he said that "we could have had a broader conversation from the beginning about some of these things".
47% : When questioned about the Treasury's concerns related to over-compliance with the Government's stay-at-home messaging, Mr Sunak said the public had not understood "sufficiently clearly that they should go to work only if they could not work from home...?"The Prime Minister said there was work to get Government communications "right" on the topic after the first lockdown.Rishi Sunak has repeated the argument that ministers were "following advice from the scientists" during the Covid crisis.
47% : "I think it's important, and this is always tricky in public policy, is many of these impacts are not felt immediately, they're felt over time, and that is always a tough thing to deal with when you're communicating, but as it turned out we were able to borrow what we needed to fund the pandemic response.
43% : "Mr Sunak said that others in government had the chance to raise concerns about the scheme but never did.

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