My brother died from Covid at the very time that Cummings was taking a Durham holiday and going for his eyesight test. Heartbreaking as it was to lose my intelligent, witty and kind brother, it is even sadder to read about Cummingsâ performance in parliament. He merely tells us what we already knew: the utter ineptitude of this government. I do not need to witness one dishonest man criticising others in power; they all bear responsibility for the 704 who died on the same day as my brother, and for the tens of thousands who have died since. What I do need is for the inquiry to begin now, in 2021, so that the truth can be laid bare before those responsible have moved on and can brush off how their appalling ineptitude killed so many.