💥 Andy Burnham furious at Covid Inquiry over a meeting of gov's Covid-O committee used to decide Tier 3 restrictions in Nov 2020. "It wasn't me that was behaving appallingly - it was the people in that room that were behaving appallingly" "They were about to impose a policy on Greater Manchester that they knew didn't work". "They sat in that room and they imposed a policy they had been advised by SAGE and others would not work".
According to Burnham, Matt Hancock's own evidence to the Covid Inquiry states: 'I was in despair that we had announced a policy that we knew would not work''. Burnham adds: "It makes me angry on behalf of the people of Greater Manchester that they say in that room and they imposed a policy that they had been advised by Sage and others would not work."
@ashcowburn Andy Burnham is too scatterbrained in this inquiry. It gets in the way.