3 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: On Covid there are two big questions: Where did the virus come from

What is in the news in Britain, asks BORIS JOHNSON. What are they talking about? You rub your eyes in sheer amazement. Covid!

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10 h. ago Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid

Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

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13 h. ago Prisoner 951: how the show tackled its Boris Johnson problem

The then-Foreign Secretary comments on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe caused a diplomatic incident in 2017

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14 h. ago Voices: ‘We need leaders to lead’: Readers have their say on the UK’s delayed Covid pandemic response

Our community largely agreed with the Covid inquiry findings that Boris Johnson’s government was chaotic and poorly prepared, though many also stressed the broader context of conflicting scientific advice, years of underfunding, and systemic failings that compounded the crisis

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16 h. ago Covid inquiry latest: Bereaved families hit out at Johnson’s ‘deafening silence’ over pandemic mistakes

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK campaign group said Boris Johnson’s pandemic actions were a ‘grave betrayal’ of the British public

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16 h. ago Boris Johnson could face legal action over pandemic failings after damning Covid inquiry report

Nadine Dorries and Lord Michael Gove have led attempts to undermine the damning report by Baroness Heather Hallett after it found inaction by Boris Johnson’s government may have cost 23,000 people their lives

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19 h. ago Top Tory insists Boris Johnson can come back despite damning Covid findings

Michael Gove apologised on behalf of the Conservative Party for the shambolic response to the Covid pandemic, but said Boris Johnson's political career shouldn't be over as a result

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19 h. ago Nearly 6,000 Londoners died due to Covid within weeks after 'deadly delay' in ordering lockdown

Boris Johnson’s government was slammed by the Covid Inquiry for its ‘chaos’ and the ‘toxic’ culture in No10

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19 h. ago Covid Bereaved group ‘will hold Government to account on Covid lessons’

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry released its second report on Thursday.

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21 h. ago Covid inquiry latest: Boris Johnson put his reputation above public safety, say bereaved families

Damning report finds more than 20,000 lives could have been spared over spring and summer 2020 had restrictions started just seven days earlier

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23 h. ago Why Covid inquiry's savage criticism of Boris Johnson is a warning to us all

Despite being overly reliant on the UK Government’s response to Covid, the Scottish Government’s relations with Westminster were marked by ‘constant tension’

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31 h. ago Boris Johnson nurtured 'toxic' Covid government culture as 'loudest voices' won

The former Prime Minister was found to at points have 'reinforced' a toxic culture inside the government that ultimately put Downing Street on the back foot during the pandemic

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32 h. ago Boris Johnson Covid rule breaks and Partygate 'caused huge distress', inquiry finds

The former Prime Minister and his closest advisors' actions with Partygate and other rule breaks have been found to have directly distressed Brits who observed the rules while caring for loved ones

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33 h. ago This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson

Editorial: That 23,000 people in England alone lost their lives because of the dithering of the former leader is a fitting – and awful – denouement to the political career of a man who was never up to the job of prime minister

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34 h. ago Scottish Government ‘had no real strategy’ for Covid in early 2020 – inquiry

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry also found the devolved administrations to be too reliant on the UK Government.

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34 h. ago Boris Johnson and top aide contributed to 'toxic and chaotic' environment in Downing Street

Baroness Hallett's Covid inquiry delivered a scathing criticism of the former Prime Minister and Dominic Cummings

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35 h. ago 'LOCKDOWN MAY BE ONLY WAY TO STOP LONDON NHS COLLAPSE IN 15 DAYS', Cummings warned Johnson as Covid virus spread

Details of fraught meetings at the heart of Government on how to protect the capital were laid bare in a damning report by the Covid Inquiry

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35 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon denies she 'behaved politically' during coronavirus pandemic response

The former first minister said it was "very difficult" working with Boris Johnson during the peak covid years in 2020 and 2021.

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35 h. ago Covid inquiry latest: UK’s pandemic response ‘too little, too late’, says inquiry chair

Damning report finds more than 20,000 lives could have been spared over spring and summer 2020 had restrictions started just seven days earlier

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35 h. ago Covid chaos in Boris Johnson’s government led to 23,000 deaths, damning inquiry finds

Covid inquiry report finds Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings presided over ‘toxic and chaotic culture’ at heart of Number 10

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