The Covid Inquiry has just released its second official report into the UK’s management of the pandemic – and it has torn into Boris Johnson’s government.

Its first report, released in July 2024 , critiqued the planning system and the “dangerously mistaken belief” the UK was better prepared for a pandemic than other countries.

This second report is 800 pages long, and examined how the government responded once Covid cases started to hit the UK.

Here’s a look at some of its most revealing findings which the inquiry chair, former Court of Appeal judge, Baroness Hallett, revealed today...

1. UK’s response was ‘too little, too late’

“The inquiry finds that the response of the four governments repeatedly amounted to a case of ‘too little, too late’,” the report reads.

“The failur

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