Front-runner to replace Boris Johnson: “I don’t think we should have closed schools.”

The UK foreign secretary totally rejected pandemic school closures.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Britain’s likely next prime minister, said today that schools should never have closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

It is remarkable that Truss rejected UK pandemic school closures, which were significantly shorter than U.S. closures, in their entirety. The UK’s constituent nations closed schools in March 2020, partially reopened them in June 2020, fully reopened schools in fall 2020, and then partially closed them again during winter.

The foreign secretary’s words follow the Swedish education minister repeatedly declaring that the Nordic nation was correct to keep its primary and lower secondary schools open in spring 2020.