PM finally launches Covid inquiry

Published date29 June 2022
"The UK inquiry into COVID-19 is now formally established and able to begin its important work," the Prime Minister said in a written statement yesterday

"The Inquiry will examine, consider and report on preparations and the response to the pandemic in England, Wales, Scotland and

Northern Ireland, up to and including the Inquiry's formal setting-up date, 28 June 2022."

It comes more than six months after Mr Johnson appointed Baroness Hallett to chair the probe in December 2021, and after he previously said the inquiry would start in spring this year.

On Sunday, the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group threatened to bring a judicial review over the failure to provide a setting up date for the...

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