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Boris Johnson rejects 'muddled' COVID inquiry report and accuses chair of 'breathtaking inconsistency'
The inquiry found failures in 2020 cost 23,000 lives and earlier lockdowns could have saved tens of thousands, while Johnson disputes key conclusions.
- On Nov 22, Boris Johnson slammed Baroness Heather Hallett's inquiry as 'hopelessly incoherent' in a social media post and said it failed to answer the 'big questions' in a Daily Mail article.
- Baroness Heather Hallett's inquiry found all four UK governments acted "too little, too late", concluding failures to take COVID-19 seriously cost 23,000 lives in the pandemic's first wave in 2020.
- Its analysis shows that earlier restrictions meant the first and second lockdowns were avoidable, with a March 16 lockdown cutting first-wave deaths by 48 per cent, Baroness Heather Hallett's report found.
- Bereaved families responded by calling for calls to remove privileges granted to Boris Johnson, former prime minister, as Lord Michael Gove, former cabinet minister, apologised and Johnson expressed regret.
- Boris Johnson, former prime minister, questioned the value of the inquiry, writing `Some judge has just spent the thick end of 200m on an inquiry, and what is the upshot?`, urging the Hallett report be filed 'vertically'.
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