Steve Baker resumes his role as government tormentor-in-chief
From our UK edition
Steve Baker has returned to his former role of government tormentor-in-chief this week, piling pressure on the government over its use of emergency powers on coronavirus. Speaking at The Spectator's Alternative Conference, Baker criticised documents from the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) as 'dreadful'. The papers, published earlier this year, proposed a strategy to use fear as a strategy in coronavirus communications: 'A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened...personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging.' In response, Baker said: 'There's this assumption that people can be forced to comply.
