Covid rules should have been same across UK, Simon Hart says
Getty ImagesA former cabinet minister said the rules that attempt to limit the spread of co-certified during the pandemic should be the same in the UK.
Simon Hart claims that “politics in decision-making” leads to different limit Things like wearing masks in Wales and the UK after wearing their respective governments’ consent.
“I just don’t feel that the decision is based purely on disease control and risk management,” said the former secretary and MP.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: “All decisions made by the Welsh preachers regarding Covid-19 are based on evidence and are always made in the best interest of Wales.”
“I do think that consistency in the UK will be easier from the perspective of trying to convey a very clear but important message to the UK residents,” he said.
Hart is Secretary of State of Wales From December 2019 to July 2022 and conservative MPs in West and South of Carmason, Pambrokshire From 2010 to 2024.
He also serves as Secretary of the Parliament of the Ministry of Finance (Chief Whip) Just published his book between October 2022 and July 2024 Immorality: The Chief Whip’s Political Diary.
Hart told BBC Wales Sunday supplement It includes a “pretty frustrating reminder of some of the difficulties we all have during the pandemic” and “Is there a better way to do this if we have to do it again?”
“There are different rules in different places, which makes this more complicated,” he said.
The Conservative government in Westminster has set restrictions, and in Wales, the rules are set by Sened’s Labor government.
More than two years of restrictions were imposed Lockdown starts in March 2020.
By January 2022, the psychology lecturer said People suffer from “fatigue” and “uncertainty” about various common rules.
At that time, Wales closed nightclubs and were restricted by entertainment, sporting events and people could meet, but in England the restrictions were much less severe.
Mr. Hart recalled the announcement of the train, when he and other railway passengers were crossing the train Severn Tunnel To emphasize the change of the rules of masks on both sides of the Welsh-England border.
“As we go through the pandemic, I came to the conclusion that there is a lot of politics in decision making,” he said.
“I just don’t feel like decisions made purely based on disease control and risk management.
“Some speeches and comments from Cardiff ministers were deliberately designed to drive the wedge between the two governments.
“Just raise some level of doubt about the thoughts of the residents of Welsh, that the decision made by the British government may be at fault.”
