Michael Gove warned 'we are 'f**king up as a Government' and missing 'golden opportunities' to get a grip on the spread of Covid in the early days of the pandemic, the official inquiry was told today. The senior Cabinet minister sent a series of expletive-laden messages to Boris Johnson's chief of staff Dominic Cummings voicing his concern at the slow …
What a contrast the two figures made at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. The late Queen and Princess Anne, not to mention Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s right-hand woman, have all called on the comfortingly expensive services of Mr Keith. ‘Effing and blinding’: Dominic Cummings at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry And when an opponent has the temerity to cut up rough, Keith …
Lawyers representing the Government today urged the Covid Inquiry to go easy on them over any pandemic mistakes. Later during the day, Claire Mitchell KC, the lawyer for Scottish bereaved families, told the inquiry that it would hear from former health secretary Matt Hancock as well as Sir Oliver Letwin, former minister for Government policy. Yesterday the inquiry's chief lawyer, …
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A 'dignified vigil' was also held outside the Inquiry by bereaved relatives The collateral consequences of shutting down society to fight Covid were barely considered, the inquiry's chief lawyer claimed today. Hugo Keith KC told the Inquiry this morning that the nation was 'taken by surprise' by 'significant aspects' of the disease that has been recorded on 226,977 death certificates …
