British PM's former top adviser says early on Covid-19 plan was a disaster
Britain's early intend to combat COVID-19 was a good "disaster" and "awful decisions" resulted in the government imposing lockdowns that might have been avoided, Primary Minister Boris Johnson's past best adviser said. Dominic Cummings, who left Johnson's personnel late last year, made his responses in a series of tweets just times before he is because of give evidence to customers of parliament about the government's handling of the pandemic.
Before his sudden departure, Cummings have been Johnson's virtually all influential adviser on Brexit and played out an important position in his successful 2019 election campaign. He was also the architect of Britain's marketing campaign to leave europe. Johnson, who offers imposed three lockdowns during the pandemic, provides hailed Britain's vaccination system as successful, but the United Kingdom has among the highest COVID-19 death tolls and it has suffered a deep financial slump.
"If we'd had the right preparations + competent persons in charge, we wd probably possess avoided lockdown1, *definitely* no dependence on lockdowns 2&3," Cummings wrote on Twitter about Saturday.
"Given the program was AWOL/disaster + awful decisions delayed everything, lockdown1 became necessary."
The federal government has said there are lessons to be discovered from the pandemic since facing accusations to be slow to impose lockdowns.
Cummings is because of appear on Wednesday before a joint inquiry of the low property of parliament's Health insurance and Social Treatment Committee and the Science and Technology Committee.
