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The government ‘couldn’t let perfect be the enemy of the good’, Sunak says<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Responding to a question from the chair about having to devise policies quickly, Sunak says the government \u201ccouldn\u2019t let perfect be the enemy of the good\u201d.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg>There was an acknowledgment early on when I was talking to the team that, of course we weren\u2019t going to get everything right straight away. <\/em><\/p>\n

That would have been, you know, surprising given the speed at which we were operating and the scale of the interventions we were designing, and putting in place.<\/em><\/p>\n

And so there was a recognition upfront and I, you know, encouraged the team to be comfortable with that, that that was OK. Right? We couldn\u2019t let perfect be the enemy of the good. And we were going to have to acknowledge that we would iterate as we go.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sunak has stressed that one of the priorities was to prevent unemployment and said that in the context of a pandemic there should have been a recognition that things had to get \u201cout fast\u201d as otherwise the consequences would have been \u201cseverely negative\u201d.<\/p>\n