Boris Johnson pushed more to “cruel, ruling outlook” to those who refused to self-interact during the epidemic, according to the documents viewed by Kovid inquiry.

The instinct of the policy makers was to favor “punitive measures” on financial assistance, written by Lord Patrick Valance, who spoke to the PM in the entire crisis and appeared with him on TV briefing.

The diary entries written by the UK Chief Scientific Advisor Lord Vallance during the time, the authorities revealed “always (Ed) to go for a stick, not carrot”.

Lord Vallance has stated that his diary entries were informal personal reflections and “late night mousing”, which were never for publication.

He was giving evidence to the sixth part of Kovid inquiry, examining tests, traces and quarantine policies.

During the 90 -minute interrogation, he was shown a series of entries from his evening diary from the first year of the epidemic.

On 12 August 2020, he wrote about a meeting with the Prime Minister and his senior colleagues, including the then Chief Advisor Dominic Coming and Cabinet Secretary Simon case.

“The instinct of this crew is to go for more enforcement and punitive measures,” he wrote.

“We suggested more carrots and encouragement (were) that people were required to take a test, self-sallet etc., but they always want to go for carrots, not sticks.”

Asked whom he was referring to in the entry, Lord Valance said it would be “decision -making for policy”.

In another entry, on 25 September 2020, as the Kovid cases were growing once again, he quoted Boris Johnson, saying: “We need to be too much punished and too much”.

And in another entry on 7 January 2021, just after the start of the third nationwide lockdown, he wrote: “PM says:” We are not sufficiently ruthless. We need to force for more separation. I favor a more powerful approach. “

However, he also said: “Late in the day, PM is understanding that encouragement (or removal of disruptive) is needed to help people.”

On 28 September 2020, ministers presented a legal duty to those who conducted a positive test for Kovid or contacted by testing-and-trace service to self-sow in England. It was announced that criminals who repeat the fine between £ 1,000 and £ 10,000 would be imposed.

Test-end-trace support payment of £ 500 was also introduced for low-income people.

Sir Patrick said that it was “important to remember” that the purpose of mass testing was to be potentially identified by infectious individuals, who could have been self-separated and “if there is no isolation, the test is not really not doing what it is doing”.

When the new rules were introduced, Boris Johnson said that the public needs to do all this to control the spread of the virus “and prevent from being infected with being the weakest.

Earlier, Matt Hancock reported that it was “important”, the UK should maintain a rapidly large -scale testing for a new disease in any future epidemic.

The former Health Secretary said he was worried that the test system installed in 2020 was now collapsing, which made it very difficult to respond.

“The important thing is that we should be ready to expand the capacity once, as a nation, after a test develops,” he said. “We were not the last time.”