The UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak have dismissed demands for their resignation after being fined by police for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street in June 2020.
We must ensure these mistakes are not repeated and that care homes are never again treated as an afterthought in pandemic planning.”
The APPG on coronavirus is conducting a cross-party parliamentary inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic.
It has so far held more than 20 hearings and made over 40 recommendations.
The group is made up of 25 MPs and members of the House of Lords and is chaired by Oxford West Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran.
Last week, it wrote to the prime minister calling for the chairman of the Covid inquiry to be picked on a cross-party basis, rather than being “hand-picked” by the government.
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dr Dan Poulter wants an immediate inquiry into how the government handled care homes during the first lockdown last year.