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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 ToriesDominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Bori…
Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inactionIn an interview with ITV, Keir Starmer also defended the decision to delay the publication of the government’s review of educational provisio…
This blog is now closed, you can read our report hereFormer 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 disea…
PM hails Trump’s part in Middle East peace deal but says what matters now is implementation. This live blog is closedEurope’s most senior human rights official has called on Shabana Mahmood to review UK protest laws after mass arrests over the ban on P…
Academy trust head Jon Coles says he nearly fell off his chair when Gavin Williamson said no plan was in placeThe leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school …
Inquiry hears of children exposed to pornography and suffering ‘grievous’ harm without protection of schoolsThe Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its im…
Lana Collie-James was 14 when she began two years at home to protect her clinically vulnerable motherLana 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’…
DHSC rejected as ‘unusable’ PPE supplied by company linked to Lord Chadlington, which later went bustThey were the lucrative deals that epitomised the “VIP lane” set up by Boris Johnson’s government during the Covid pandemic, which gave priority for pe…
Campaigners says former health secretary’s submission was ‘full of excuses and completely devoid of accountability’Bereaved families have said Matt Hancock’s evidence to the Covid inquiry “was full of excuses and completely devoid of accountability” as…
Helen Hough says her husband was traumatised by ‘horrific’ death of patient and later killed himselfA woman whose husband killed himself amid the pressure of running a care home during the pandemic has told the Covid inquiry that staff were “absolutely…