Revealed: Sunak snubbed request to appoint more diverse #Covidinquiry panel https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-cabinet-office-racism-heather-hallett/

The evidence is in, and it is damning. The UK was ‘woefully unprepared’ for a pandemic following a decade of Government failures.

The Government failed to prepare to prevent the spread of a pandemic, instead focusing on dealing with the effects of a catastrophic death toll.

Even if the right plans had been in place, a decade of austerity measures meant that we were in no fit position to scale...

https://chng.it/FFZdkKkKgS

#covid #CovidInquiry #ToryCorruption

Experts recover messages from #BorisJohnson’s old mobile phone

Former PM’s spokesperson says ‘relevant’ messages will be handed over to #CovidInquiry ‘unredacted’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/21/boris-johnson-experts-recover-messages-old-phone-covid-inquiry #Partygate #ToryCorruption #Covid19

'Experts recover messages from #BorisJohnson’s old phone

Former PM’s spokesperson says messages will be handed over to #CovidInquiry ‘unredacted’'

The plot thickens.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/21/boris-johnson-experts-recover-messages-old-phone-covid-inquiry

The findings of the Covid Inquiry continue to be as damning as expected. “Let the bodies pile high” in the name of easy profit to be made.
Dan Goyal’s excellent thread on Twitter
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1681625486395424771.html
#CovidInquiry

A nation off-guard: what the #UK #CovidInquiry has revealed

Six weeks of hearings have seen arguments about #pandemic planning bound up with old battles over #Brexit and #austerity

• Covid inquiry hears call for more cash for public health
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/19/uk-covid-inquiry-pandemic-planning #Covid19 #ToryPoliciesInAction

People who died with #Covid treated ‘like toxic waste’, families tell UK inquiry

#CovidInquiry

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/18/people-who-died-with-covid-treated-like-toxic-waste-families-tell-uk-inquiry

This is outrageous. The Government MUST hand over all key evidence to the #CovidInquiry without further delay. Agree? Join me and add your name: https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Release-the-evidence?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2023-07-15

"The dog ate my homework"

#CovidInquiry #BorisJohnson

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/boris-johnson-has-forgotten-passcode-for-phone-wanted-by-covid-inquiry

#BorisJohnson ‘has forgotten’ passcode for phone wanted by #CovidInquiry

Spokesperson says ex-PM wants to hand over WhatsApp messages but experts describe latest development as ‘pretty lame excuse
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/boris-johnson-has-forgotten-passcode-for-phone-wanted-by-covid-inquiry #Covid19 #Partygate #ToryCorruption

#Covidinquiry has no plan to sanction Boris Johnson over missing messages

He can get away with it and knows it. People died unnecessarily. Everyone knows it.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-boris-johnson-whatsapps-delay-legal-action/

Key official bodies set up to tackle race, gender and other inequalities had no involvement in pandemic planning before Covid hit, government insiders have told the UK Covid-19 public inquiry

#CovidInquiry

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/equality-bodies-had-no-role-in-pandemic-planning-uk-covid-inquiry-hears

Johnson’s Covid WhatsApps from old phone STILL not handed to #covidinquiry https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/boris-johnsons-covid-whatsapps-from-old-phone-still-not-handed-to-inquiry-352593/

OK journalists, now we all know that it was Huw Edwards, he didn't do anything illegal, and that all the relentless stories you've been writing about him for the last week have put him in hospital with a severe mental health crisis (jolly well done, guys, you must be so proud of yourselves), can you all get back to reporting proper news?

Like, for example, what happens now that the government and Johnson have failed to comply with the order to hand over the WhatsApp messages?

#CovidInquiry

So hasn't the deadline passed for the government to hand over Johnson's WhatsApp messages to the Covid Inquiry?

Whatever happened to that? Are any journalists free to report on it or are they all too busy distracting us with what an unnamed BBC presenter may or may not have done?

#CovidInquiry #BorisJohnson #BBCPresenter #MassiveDistractionFromWhatIsActuallyImportant

Rishi #Sunak’s costly #CovidInquiry legal challenge has failed – as expected https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/07/08/rishi-sunaks-costly-covid-inquiry-legal-challenge-has-failed-as-expected/

So the #CovidInquiry court case has been lost as predicted by Rishi Sunak, one of the High Court judges being a former rugby player no less, though mental images of little Rishi being flattened on the pitch are no less smile inducing than seeing him get floored in court. The Inquiry now has even more clout following this for more materials should they want it, Sunak has failed again and he's slipped even further in the polls today. #DamoRants

https://youtu.be/mtydPgND1NA

Original toot date: 14 June, 2023

Please help me ensure that people with #disabilities, single parents, those #stillcoviding, & our #neurodiverse communities are included in our society. Because #inclusion should be a right, not a luxury!

https://me.getup.org.au/petitions/legislate-online-inclusion

#vicpol #springst #auspol #CovidInquiry

The latest predictable facepalm from Rishi's government.

Even they thought they would lose.

Why did he waste (no doubt 100ks of) taxpayer money on this challenge?

#boris #politic #ukpolitics #RishiSunak #covid #covidinquiry

Court orders ministers to hand Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps to Covid inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/ministers-lose-legal-challenge-over-boris-johnson-whatsapps-covid-inquiry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Government says it will comply with #HighCourt ruling saying it must give #CovidInquiry all documents it wants – #UKPolitics live -

Latest updates: government loses legal challenge to block #BorisJohnson’s unredacted WhatsApps from being handed to official #Covid19 inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jul/06/keir-starmer-class-ceiling-labour-debating-conservatives-chris-pincher-uk-politics-latest