Rishi Sunak reportedly said UK should ‘let people die’ during COVID-19 pandemic

According to the Times of India, a recent inquiry by the UK into the COVID-19 epidemic has revealed a relevant quote from Prime Minister Rishi Sink.

According to Patrick Valence, the government’s former chief scientific adviser، The then-Finance Minister Sink allegedly told the government during a meeting with then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson “Let people die instead of enforcing a second national lockdown.

Valence made a note of the meeting in his diary on October 25, 2020, which was presented in the inquiry on Monday.

The diary also lists how Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s most senior adviser during the epidemic, delivered to Valence what he heard at the meeting.

Valence quoted Cummings in his diary as saying: “Rishi thinks let people die and that’s fine. It all feels like a complete lack of leadership.”

Patrick Valence addresses a briefing on the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic on January 4, 2022 in Downing Street, London, UK. — Reuters
Patrick Valence addresses a briefing on the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic on January 4, 2022 in Downing Street, London, UK. — Reuters
According to Sink’s spokesman, the prime minister will decide his position when he gives evidence to the inquiry “rather respond to each one in pieces”.

The inquiry, which runs through the summer of 2026, according to Reuters، The Corona virus is reviewing the government’s response to the epidemic that shut down large parts of the economy and killed more than 220,000 people in the UK.

Senior government officials have repeatedly said that the government was not prepared for epidemics and that “toxic” and “macho” cultures have hampered the response to the health crisis.

The danger for Sink is that the evidence in the inquiry undermines Johnson’s attempt to cast himself as a change in the leadership of the chaos, even though they all Was one of the senior ministers in this government.

Previous evidence suggests that he was named “Dr. Death” by a government scientific adviser on the “At Out to Help Out” policy in the summer of 2020, Who subsidized food in pubs and restaurants but health experts criticized the spread of the virus.