Tier system ‘didn’t work but was worth a try’, Johnson tells Covid inquiry
Former prime minister Boris Johnson has said that the tier system, introduced in a bid to stem cases of Covid-19 during the pandemic, did not work but insisted it was “worth a try”.
The policy saw some parts of the country placed under heavy restrictions in the autumn of 2020, while others regions enjoyed more freedom.
But Mr Johnson told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that creating artificial boundaries based on evidence on where cases were highest caused “huge problems”, was “divisive and difficult to implement” and caused some politicians to become “paranoid”.
He acknowledged that the system led to
