Opinion: Covid proves the need for a civil service shake-up The government’s pandemic response shows that the Whitehall can move at speed. But those lessons must now be learned and fully embedded in government Isabel Infantes/EMPICS Entertainment 27 May 2021 Post-Covid, the UK can and will be better governed. The point is to learn not just from what went wrong (poor pandemic planning, the initial care home catastrophe, border control confusion and so on), but from what went right (vaccines, economic support, routine and – at last – surge testing). We have learned a great deal about what...