Rishi Sunak issues a statement on demonstrators planning to take to the streets on Armistice Day next Saturday.
All this week the COVID inquiry has been hearing evidence from top aides to Boris Johnson and senior civil servants about the period in early 2020 as the pandemic was landing on British shores.Messages were shown in which foul language was used to and about ministers and civil servants, and a picture was painted of a government unprepared for the pandemic, as well as chaos in early 2020.
There were also notes and messages detailing frustration with Boris Johnson 'oscillating' on decisions, debating whether a national lockdown was the right course of action, and suggesting elderly people should 'accept their fate' so young people didn't have to isolate .Extracts of the ex-PM's witness statement have been shared by the COVID inquiry, and it details his thought process as he remembers it.
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