What could have been a full Welsh inquiry has been crammed into just a few hearings. The result is frustrating
Chief medical officer tells UK Covid-19 inquiry that breaking rank with rest of UK may have been counterproductive
Top scientists tell Covid inquiry they expected the prime minister to announce a UK-wide lockdown on 12 March 2020
Care home deaths soared as Holyrood took two months to introduce testing for outgoing hospital patients, inquiry hears
UK Covid inquiry heard how Scottish workers suffered due to cuts that left public services ‘ill-equipped’ for crisis
Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish government failed to ‘effectively consult’ marginalised groups, Covid inquiry is told
The cabinet minister also said the government’s PPE procurement ‘deserves at the very least a reflection’
Targeted support for people worst affected by Covid would have been ‘racial segregation’, Kemi Badenoch told inquiry
Angela McLean also laid into Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out: ‘Can you not find another way to stimulate the economy?’
A Covid inquiry witness also claims to have been present for Johnson’s infamous ‘let the bodies pile high’ comment
One epidemiologist said he believes SAGE unfairly dismissed suggestion despite shielding failing to protect vulnerable
Graham Medley also tells UK Covid-19 inquiry that risk of NHS being overwhelmed was first raised in February 2020
