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Sunak refuses to commit to wearing mask in crowded Commons
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Rishi Sunak has refused to commit to wearing a mask inside a crowded House of Commons, as a leading government scientific adviser said ministers were mistaken to believe that vaccinations alone would keep Covid levels under control.
The chancellor also reiterated that ministers did not yet believe it was necessary to move to the government’s “plan B” for Covid over the winter, which would reintroduce mandatory mask wearing for crowded spaces, vaccine passports and more home working.
“At the moment, the data does not suggest that we should be immediately moving to plan B,” Sunak told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show. “But of course we will keep an eye on that. The plans are ready, we outlined them way beforehand to make sure people knew what the
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