A woman who lost her partner to Covid has hit out at UK Government officials who held illegal lockdown parties, saying there was a “culture of contempt for the ordinary
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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry’s legal team has said it believes the “majority” of WhatsApp messages shared among Scottish Government officials during the pandemic “have not been retained”. As part of
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Women and children were among the worst affected by the Covid pandemic – and many youngsters saw their childhood “blighted”, an inquiry has heard. On day two of the Scottish
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Care home residents were compared to “exhibits in a reptile house” because of Covid restrictions limiting visits, a lawyer representing families told the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry as it began on
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Government advisers referred to Rishi Sunak as “Dr Death” during the pandemic, WhatsApp messages shown to the Covid-19 Inquiry have revealed. The inquiry also heard that putting the country into
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Professor Neil Ferguson, whose Covid modelling was instrumental to the UK going into lockdown, has denied stepping “over the line” and telling ministers they needed to shut down. The scientist,
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Covid-19 deaths in the UK during the first wave of the pandemic could have been reduced if the UK went into lockdown just two weeks earlier, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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The coronavirus lockdown was a “failure of public health policy”, an expert has said as it emerged that top scientific modellers were never asked how to avoid the measure. Mark
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Boris Johnson’s description of long Covid as “bollocks” left experts shocked, saddened and angered, the inquiry into the pandemic in the UK has heard. A document from October 2020 described
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The Government was described by the head of the civil service as looking like a “terrible, tragic joke”, while Boris Johnson’s now-wife was “the real person in charge”, in WhatsApp
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