Rishi Sunak to be quizzed on Eat Out scheme and lockdowns at Covid inquiry

People eating outside a restaurant in Chinatown in Soho during the Eat Out to Help Out scheme (Yui Mok/PA)

The British prime minister Rishi Sunak will face allegations his Eat Out to Help Out scheme fuelled the spread of coronavirus when he appears at the Covid inquiry on Monday.

Mr Sunak is expected to be grilled on whether he believed scientists were handed too much power and if insufficient consideration was given to the impact of lockdowns.