UK Conservative candidate asserted: ‘We shouldn’t have empowered scientists’

In an interview with Spectator magazine, Sunak said he did not want to blame people, but believed ministers had made a number of “mistakes” during the pandemic, such as giving “too much power” to scientific advisors.

He also claimed that he was barred from speaking about the negative side effects of the lockdown restrictions, and said that the minutes of meetings of the Sage Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, a group of independent experts that advise the government, often eliminated dissenting voices.

It also revealed that the ministers did not have enough information to analyze the analysis produced by the scientists.

According to the former minister, the government “empowered” official scholars and tried to “scare people” through propaganda campaigns.

“We shouldn’t have empowered scientists the way we did,” he said.

“No cost-benefit arithmetic has been done, which is a basic requirement for almost all public health interventions,” he added.

He said he left the meeting “in anger” because his colleagues refused to acknowledge the broader impact of the lockdown.

The former minister also stated that he was often the lone voice of resistance within the government led by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“Those meetings were literally around that table, just a fight. It was incredibly awkward every single time. We’re not at all talking about missed shifts or backlogs at Public Health.”

One of the big concerns that Sunak expressed was the message of fear from the virus and that his team was worried it could have lasting effects.

In each summary, we try to say: let’s stop the “fear” story. It was always a mistake from the start. I constantly said it was a mistake. The posters showing Covid patients on ventilators were the worst.”

“It was a mistake to scare people like that. The closest he came to challenging this was a speech he gave in September 2020 saying it was time to learn ‘live without fear’ – a direct response to a letter from the Cabinet Office. They were very upset. So “.