According to Sunak, his opposition to closing schools was met with silence during a meeting and that it was a mistake toempower scientists during the coronaviruses epidemic.
One of the major errors was allowing the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies to have so much influence on decision making, such as closing schools and colleges in March 2020.
Sunak said that he was banned from discussing the trade-offs of imposing coronaviruses related restrictions.
In an interview with the Spectator to be published on Saturday, the former chancellor said that we shouldn't have given the scientists so much power. Trade-offs have to be acknowledged from the beginning.
We could be in a different place if we did all of that. We would have made different decisions.
There are schools in the UK that look after the children of key workers and vulnerable children. In August 2020, some schools reopened.
A few days ago, Sunak praised British scientists and promised to set up a billion dollar research programme if he became prime minister.
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Schools, colleges and nurseries in the UK are closed due to the coronaviruses.
Sunak said he got emotional when he tried to speak out against closing schools. The former chancellor said that kids not being in school is a nightmare.
There was a lot of quiet after. Someone had said it for the first time. I felt so angry.
The minutes from the meetings were edited and the opposing opinions were not included. Sunak said that the meetings were just fighting. It was very uncomfortable.
Sunak said that advisers didn't know there was a Treasury person on their calls.
He said that his Treasury official told him that a lot of people disagreed with what was said during the meetings, but that he didn't know why.
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