‘Sunak dubbed Dr Death by advisers’ says Covid Solicitor
Speaking outside the Covid Inquiry where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is giving evidence, Solicitor for Scottish Covid Bereaved Aamer Anwar says “despite the science” the former chancellor “continued to oppose lockdown.” Mr Anwar adds that the Covid Bereaved find it “inconceivable” that any political leader “cannot producer their WhatsApp’s for the key periods of the pandemic”. This comes after neither Boris Johnson nor Rishi Sunak have been able to present message exchanges from the lockdown era. Report by Rowlandi. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Rishi Sunak in his role as Chancellor was Boris Johnson's right-hand man, but his primary loyalty was to the markets.
00:06 By the 13th of March 2020, an estimated
00:10 160,000 people were infected with the virus. That was doubling every three days. Yet, Mr. Sunak continued to oppose lockdown
00:18 despite the science. On the question of WhatsApps, the COVID-bereaved find it inconceivable
00:25 that any political leader, wherever they are, cannot produce their WhatsApps for the key periods of the pandemic.
00:32 The bereaved do not accept today's excuses offered by the Prime Minister that his WhatsApps are entirely unavailable.
00:40 Indeed, it would appear that everyone involved in the UK government,
00:45 chief medical scientists, chief scientific advisers, have been able to provide their WhatsApps to this inquiry,
00:52 apart from Mr. Johnson, who missed out the key period, and now Rishi Sunak, who can provide nothing at all.
00:58 Rishi Sunak was named as Dr. Death by his own scientific advisors, and today what the Prime Minister should now take credit for
01:06 was releasing a new wave of death and disease.
01:09 Rishi Sunak's one-man mission to torpedo lockdown to gain a competitive advantage
01:15 resulted in the false economy of sacrificing tens of thousands of lives to save the economy.
01:21 Today, the COVID-bereaved do not accept his empty words of sorrow,
01:26 and it is of note that the Prime Minister has failed to utter one word of apology.