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‘Tory failures led to 150,000 virus deaths’
People’s Covid Inquiry delivers damning first findings, concluding government ‘unfit for purpose’ in the crisis
A young girl rides a scooter past the National Covid Memorial Wall on the Embankment in London
GOVERNMENT incompetence helped cause the deaths of 150,000 people with coronavirus, the People’s Covid Inquiry charged yesterday as it delivered its damning interim report.
The probe, organised by Keep Our NHS Public (KONP), found Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “inconsistent, ill-prepared, and miscommunicated” attempts to deal with the crisis resulted in unnecessary fatalities.
Chaired by Michael Mansfield QC and set up in the absence of a formal public inquiry, the investigation heard from dozens of health professionals and the bereaved at nine hearings between February and last month.
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