Top scientists have argued lockdown should have been a week earlier – and that there was evidence for it at the time
Sunak told MPs that scientific advice had been taken ‘at all steps’ during Covid. That’s not what the inquiry has heard
Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s former deputy chief medical officer, said Operation Moonshot ‘didn’t make any sense’
The Covid inquiry heard that it wasn’t until 25 February 2020 that a plan was commissioned by ministers
Chris Whitty defends failure to act on deputy chief medical officer’s fears more than two months before lockdown
Whitty told the editor of The Lancet medical journal: “I basically don’t think you understand what we are doing”
