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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: Covid inquiry reaches bittersweet final day of witness testimony - The Untold Story

Protesters stand outside Dorland House holding pictures of Covid victims and placards as Boris Johnson testified in December 2023
The inquiry’s £203.98m cost has faced criticism from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, but a spokesperson said that ‘only a fraction of the billions spent during the Covid-19 pandemic needs to be saved next time for this inquiry to have been worth it’. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Bereaved families have marked the final day of witness testimony in the long-running Covid inquiry by saying government “incompetence, chaos and callousness is now on the public record”.

Matt Fowler, the co-founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK (CBFFJ), urged officials to use the inquiry as a blueprint “to take brave, decisive, urgent action” and warned that the country was still not prepared for a future crisis.

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