The UK government plunged the country into COVID-19 lockdowns without properly considering the social and economic costs, and dissenting voices in the Cabinet and in the scientific community were suppressed, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has revealed.
The government imposed three national lockdowns on the population during the pandemic, but it never properly examined the likely side-effects of the drastic measures, said Sunak, who is now a contender in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and UK prime minister.
