
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reported to have said in a closed-door meeting during the coronavirus pandemic that the Johnson government should "let people die rather than impose a second lockdown".
This statement, which was made known to the committee studying the management of the pandemic, results from an entry made in his diary on October 25, 2020, by the government's chief scientific adviser at the time, Patrick Vallance. Sunak was the finance minister at the time.
Specifically, Vallance wrote in his diary that Johnson's top adviser, Dominic Cummings, had said that during the discussion Rishi Sunak thought we should let people die and that it was okay. This all seems like a complete lack of leadership.
A spokesman for Sunak, commented after the revelation that all the details of that period are being investigated and therefore the prime minister "will not answer each one piece by piece".
The inquiry examines the British government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed at least 220,000 people in the country. The research is expected to last until the summer of 2026.
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