Liz Truss has said the government went “too far” by closing schools during the Covid lockdown.
The Tory leadership frontrunner was answering questions at a hustings event in Norwich on Thursday evening.
In response to a question about Rishi Sunak’s comments that it was “wrong to scare people” with Covid messaging, Ms Truss said “we did go too far” with school closures and questioned the government’s “draconian” lockdown policy during the pandemic.
“I didn’t actually sit on the Covid committee during that time, I was busy striking trade deals around the world,” she said.
“My view is we did go too far, particularly on keeping schools closed. I’ve got two teenage daughters and know how difficult it was for children and parents and I would not have a lockdown again.”
