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The inquiry is entrusted with finding out precisely how the virus spread and what the government of the time did or did not do.

QUENTIN LETTS: This bloated inquiry is on course to be the most expensive held in Britain, exceeding the 12-year, £200 million Bloody Sunday inquiry.

<strong>Editorial:</strong> Testimony from the government’s medical and scientific advisers condemns Boris Johnson’s Downing Street and Rishi Sunak’s Treasury

EMPATHY is a much-derided concept these days, in the age of thin-skinned political strongmen and culture warriors who believe destroying an opponent…

Dame Angela McLean, who this year succeeded Sir Patrick Vallance as No10s chief scientific adviser, said the measure would not have been as damaging.

Momentum MP Navendu Mishra claims to be in favour of a Gaza ceasefire. Despite that he followed Starmer’s orders to abstain, reports Carla Roberts

Sir Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, told the Covid inquiry that nobody looking at the way Britain handled the pandemic “could say it was ideal”. A flabbergasted official counsel, Hugo Keith KC, replied: “That is, if I may say so with the greatest respect, quite an understatement.”

SIR – National debt stands at £2.5 trillion, a similar level to our GDP, and costs £85 billion a year in interest payments. Unfunded public-sector pension liabilities stand at around £2.6 trillion (report, November 21), yet government spending continues at eye-watering levels.

Sir Patrick Vallance's "brain dumps" morphed into damning public critiques - but are diaries therapeutic?

Englands chief medical officer is giving evidence to the public inquiry into the handling of Covid-19 for a second day.