A new report, based on evidence from people such as Matt Hancock and Professor Chris Whitty, finds delaying the first lockdown was a 'serious error' that should have been challenged.
The UK's independent inquiry into COVID-19 is due to launch in Spring 2022. Until then, this parliamentary report is the best assessment we are likely to get into the government's pandemic response.'s"100,000 tests target", the cross-party committee's conclusions are damning.
The government's initial"fatalistic" approach was"a serious early error". The test, trace and isolate system was"often chaotic" and"ultimately failed". Thousands of care home deaths"could have been avoided".'s coruscating take on government failures. In May, he argued:"Tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die."
The committee unsurprisingly avoids echoing Mr Cummings's intensely personal attacks on the prime minister , his wife and Mr Hancock .But they do use strong language to describe how parts of the civil service were unprepared for dealing with complex crises.The committee of MPs are particularly critical about the operation of COBR, the government's emergency committee.
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