Former chancellor and PM faces questions on the economic response to the pandemic Sunak said speed was “paramount” as “one thing that was crystal clear that this was happening very quickly” and was to have an “extraordinary impact” on millions of people across the country. A damning official report on the handling of the pandemic … Read more
Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture ‘Too little, too late’: report condemns Covid response ‘Chaotic and indecisive’: UK’s response under Tories Dominic Cummings “poisoned the atmosphere” of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street during the Covid crisis, the official inquiry into the pandemic has found, saying he … Read more
Official report condemns handling of pandemic by leaders of the UK’s devolved nations Nicola Sturgeon excluded senior advisers from decision-making during the pandemic by holding “gold command meetings” with a small circle, reducing transparency and accountability, the Covid inquiry has found. In a damning report on how UK politicians handled Covid, former prime minister Boris … Read more
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10 ‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a … Read more
Former prime minister grilled over pandemic’s impact on young people and says he wishes ‘another solution’ could have been found over school closures Former prime minister Boris Johnson tries to give the inquiry context around the decision making on the closure of educational settings. He says: Don’t forget that we didn’t know the effect this … Read more
Lana Collie-James stayed in virtual isolation for two years, teaching herself GCSE’s to protect her clinically vulnerable mother Lana Collie-James was 14 years old in the midst of the Covid pandemic when she was offered a stark choice: her education or her mother’s life. “My mum’s clinically vulnerable. She has a compromised immune system, along … Read more