UK’s COVID-19 Response Was ‘Too Draconian’: PM Hopeful Truss

Liz Truss talks during a Conservative Party leadership election hustings event in Norwich, England, on Aug. 25, 2022. Joe Giddens/PA Media

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was “too draconian” and that she would “never impose a lockdown” if she becomes prime minister.

Truss, the frontrunner in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, said she questioned the lockdown measures though she was not on the committee making the decisions on the response to COVID-19.