A BBC Question Time panellist was applauded after he called for Boris Johnson to be “hauled into Downing Street” and made to apologise to the country for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lib Dem MP Josh Babarinde also demanded that the former prime minister be banned from holding public office again after a damning report found that 23,000 lives could have been saved if he had locked the country down sooner.

The report, published on Thursday, said Johnson’s government – and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – had done “too little, too late” at the start of the pandemic.

It also said Johnson’s top adviser Dominic Cummings had cultivated a “culture of fear, mutual suspicion and distrust that poisoned the atmosphere” in No.10.

Despite the

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