COVID-19: 'There was no planning for a lockdown,' former chancellor tells inquiry
The suggestion of an "asymptomatic disease" was not raised by medical experts while George Osborne was chancellor, he says, and neither was the necessity for "stockpiling of PPE".
Tuesday 20 June 2023 12:22, UK
George Osborne tells the COVID inquiry that there was no planning for a lockdown and that 'with hindsight' more could have been done to budget for one.