Covid taskforce had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’, inquiry told

Former head of body set up to coordinate pandemic policy agrees that he was ‘blindsided’ by Rishi Sunak’s planUK politics live – latest updatesThe government body set up to coordinate Covid policy had no warning about Rishi Sunak’s “eat out to help out” scheme and felt “blindsided” by the Treasury over it, the inquiry into the pandemic has been told.Simon Ridley, the senior civil servant who was made head of the Cabinet Office’s Covid t