Government "groupthink" meant it only planned for an influenza pandemic that would "inevitably spread like wildfire" and failed to see that early quarantine would have stopped Covid in its tracks, Jeremy Hunt said today.
To lose one genuinely conservative Cabinet minister may be regarded as a misfortune... The political events of the last week are beginning to look like a globalist coup. Or is it just one monumental cock-up after another?
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are the self-destruction of the Conservative Party, Graham Norton's woke confusion and Jeremy Hunt’s remarkable comeback.
In this week’s London Calling the talking points are: getting old, cycling accidents, the season finale of Rings of Power, Anthony Trollope’s masterpiece and whether Jeremy Hunt’s coronation is a deep state coup.
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has a woeful record on lockdowns: a Zero Covid proponent, he has praised China's response, voted for vaccine passports and opposed ending lockdowns until infections drop below 1,000 a day.
According to Esther McVey, Jeremy Hunt has pledged never to reimpose a full lockdown in response to a Covid-style pandemic. Bit of wiggle room there, but an encouraging sign. Will the other candidates follow suit?
For lockdown sceptic Tory MPs wondering whether to back Boris, there's a powerful two word argument: Jeremy Hunt. The favourite to succeed the PM was one of the most zealous lockdown enthusiasts in the House of Commons.
