Damning Commons Covid report should be seen only as a start
Analysis: report is not short on lessons but a full public inquiry is needed to get to the bottom of UK’s response to pandemic
It might not have been the immediate public inquiry sought by opposition parties and bereaved families, but the landmark joint report into the UK’s handling of Covid proved less toothless than some feared.
Published almost exactly a year to the day since the MPs’ inquiry was first announced, the “lessons learned to date” report, prepared by two Commons committees after mammoth evidence sessions, is not short on lessons – some of them expressed with notable bluntness.
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