The COVID inquiry is about “scapegoating” these on the high of presidency, Boris Jonnson’s sister has instructed the Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast.
Ahead of the previous prime minister taking the stand on Wednesday and Thursday, Rachel Johnson has stated the multi-year inquiry is a “show trial” identical to the Parliamentary Privileges inquiry into partygate.
She instructed the podcast by Sky News and Politico that “100% it’s about scapegoating because, as I said, it’s already been agreed that lockdown was the right thing to do.
“Therefore, the one questions they will actually ask is, was it accomplished correctly? And if not, who will we blame? So that is going to comply with the mannequin of all public inquiries lately.
“Rather than learn lessons for the future, for the next pandemic, which is going to come down the pike. They are spending £100m of taxpayers’ money working out who to blame most for the past rather than using that money to get our pandemic plan or our pandemic response geared up and match fit for the next pandemic. It is driving me mad.”
Mr Johnson is predicted to challenge an apology on behalf of the federal government concerning the early dealing with of the pandemic, however defend his private behaviour. He will level to shifting recommendation and the character of the pandemic, in addition to a want to pit advisers towards each other to get the perfect out of them.
Rachel Johnson says that whereas in fact the federal government led by her brother made errors, it additionally did issues nicely and “they should be applauded”.
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However, she does recommend the federal government was not nicely geared up for the varieties of choices it wanted to take as a result of lockdown affected folks’s houses and the important thing figures within the room had been all males.
“It was an ill-equipped government to take these massive decisions that affected the everyday lives of the entire country because they only had four blokes basically in the room, you know, Matt Hancock, Cummings, Michael Gove and the one we are not mentioning [Mr Johnson],” she stated.
“And at the time I thought this is probably insane that these four men, who’ve never changed a nappy or, as Alison Pearson so brilliantly said, couldn’t pick out their own children in a school photo, are micro-managing every single aspect of our lives.”
The COVID inquiry rejects any suggestion that it has pre-determined its findings.
Find out extra about what Boris Johnson will inform the COVID inquiry on the Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast.
Content Source: information.sky.com