Some ministers thought the police were too heavy handed for imposing heavy fines on people taking walks in the countryside, but others wanted forces to be more draconian
Former prime minister Boris Johnson speaks during his first Cabinet meeting after a reshuffle flanked by his new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, centre right, in February 2020, just before the pandemic began. , with some ministers believing forces were too heavy handed in fining people for taking country walks during lockdown, it has emerged.
She says there were high-level doubts in government about whether the lockdown regulations had gone too far. During the first lockdown, Derbyshire police force was criticised after their officers imposed fines of £200 to walkers who had driven short distances to Peak District beauty spots to get their daily socially distanced exercise.
“It was so unusual for the police to be regulating people’s lives in this way and there was a clear difference amongst ministers between those who thought that the police were overreaching when chasing down people going for a walk in the countryside and others who thought that being more draconian was the answer, although the Prime Minister usually took a more tolerant stance.”
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