COVID-19 report goes a long way to answering inquiry's critics

This scathing report goes a long way to answer the UK COVID-19 Inquiry's critics, who have consistently attacked it as a costly waste of time.

They tried to undermine inquiry chair Lady Hallet's attempt to understand what went wrong and how we might do better, and portray it as a lame exercise that would achieve very little.

Well, we now know that Boris Johnson's "toxic and chaotic" government could well have prevented at least 23,000 deaths had they acted sooner and with greater urgency.

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The response was "too little, too late". And nobody in power truly understood the scale of the emerging threat or the urgency of the response it required.

The grieving families