Former home secretary Priti Patel gives evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. When giving her evidence, Dame Priti said that early in the pandemic there was no ability to prevent coronavirus arriving in the UK through the borders.
Former home secretary Dame Priti Patel today admitted there was no ability to stop Covid from arriving in the country through Britain's borders in early 2020.
The ex-Cabinet minister acknowledged there was 'no technical capability' - such as through temperature testing - to restrict the spread of coronavirus via people arriving in the UK at the start of the pandemic Asked if she and her Home Office colleagues had to 'effectively sit down and work out step-by-step what you should do', she replied: 'I think that's fair. I do think that's fair.'
Dame Priti also told the inquiry it became 'self-evident very early on' that the Government did not have the 'capability' for practical measures, such as being able to 'heat-test' people that were coming through the border. He would then have to be 'very clear that would not be enforced immediately because it was unfair to put the officers in a position where they didn't understand precisely what they were supposed to be doing'.
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