England Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab Busted on Sky News Covid-19 Lockdowns Masks Social Distancing

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This is all about leadership. Did it show great leadership for the world's leaders to gather at a barbie where there are more than 30 people, more than the limit that ordinary people will be able to have at their weddings and where the only people wearing masks were the staff? Now I can understand that there will be all sorts of precautions and so on. But it's not a good look, is it? Look, it's outside, because it's very well ventilated on the beach. We've taken all the available wedding I can only have 30 inside our site. I think in the fair, both in terms of the checks that have been done, the daily checks for COVID, the precautions, the slimline delegations, we have taken every measure possible to make sure this is not just COVID secure but able to take place. And I think we've gone well beyond and above in terms of making sure that this is COVID secure. So it's pretty good signal that if you're having a wedding and you can have it outside, you can probably have more than 30 people and not wear a mask. Well the G7 is not 30 people but there's... There are more than 30 people at the barbie, the pictures are all out there. There was social distancing there, there was... They were not social distancing. Well, Trevor, we look very carefully at this. Honestly, I'm not blaming you for this foreign sector. All I'm saying is it's out there and actually maybe somebody tripped up, maybe somebody made a mistake, but it's out there and people will be reasonably saying you're not allowing me to gather with my friends and family at a wedding or a funeral. But look at what you guys are doing. But in fairness, there have always been different principles for social entertainment or weddings than for government business. Now you may make light of policies. Are those rules are being the same all along? I think people will understand, I think your viewers will understand, the serious business of bringing leaders together to bring back the economy stronger, greener, deal with the pandemic, shift the point at which the whole world is vaccinated from 2024 to the middle of next year. That's a serious business that they're engaged in, amissed all of the leisure activities on the beach. Straight forward question. First of June, will restrictions be lifted or not? As you know, the Prime Minister will set out the proposition tomorrow. We're in a race against, if you like, to roll out the second dose of the vaccine against the variance. We need to assess the data very carefully. We've done a great job with this vaccine roll out. But as the PM said, we want to proceed irreversibly and that means we need to do it carefully and cautiously. So it feels like we're in a round where we could be back in. I can't account for a very few. I feel this morning, but I can tell you that you'll get the full answers tomorrow.