Sunak and Johnson repeatedly pushed against autumn lockdown, inquiry told

Covid investigation also told taskforce coordinating pandemic policy had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’UK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak and Boris Johnson repeatedly pushed against lockdown measures during the second wave of Covid in autumn 2020, with the government’s chief scientist accusing the then-chancellor of using “spurious” arguments against new rules, the inquiry into the pandemic has heard.In a day of evidence that placed increasing f