Liz Truss has been criticised for not sporting a masks in a packed Home of Commons on Monday afternoon, simply hours earlier than she examined constructive for Covid-19.
The international secretary was in parliament to again Boris Johnson, as he sought to stabilise his premiership within the wake of the publication of Sue Grey’s redacted partygate report.
Throughout the debate, Ms Truss sat beside well being secretary Sajid Javid, who was sporting a face masking, and residential secretary Priti Patel, who was not.
The Tory frontbencher then attended a gathering of Conservative MPs, during which the prime minister tried to shore up help and to stave off any potential challenges to his management.
The South West Norfolk MP found afterward Monday that she had contracted the virus.
“I examined constructive for Covid this night,” she tweeted. “Fortunately I’ve had my three jabs and can be working from house whereas I isolate.”
Commentators had been fast to level out that she had been maskless in parliament on Monday, with some accusing her of endangering others.
“No masks, not a care on the planet as you doubtlessly put these round you in danger,” one social media consumer wrote, including that her strategy “summed up” the federal government’s dealing with of the pandemic.
In the meantime, the educational Dr Jennifer Cassidy inspired Ms Truss to “put on a rattling masks” when returns to the Commons.
Talking on Tuesday morning, the deputy prime minister Dominic Raab defended his ministerial colleague’s resolution to not put on a masks. “I’m undecided [a mask] would have made a distinction,” he informed Instances Radio.
Because of her constructive Covid-19 check, Ms Truss will now not accompany Mr Johnson on a visit to Ukraine, the place the pair had been on account of discuss to the nation’s leaders in regards to the build-up of Russian troops at its border.
The training secretary Nadhim Zahawi additionally examined constructive for Covid-19 on Monday.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
