Each week it seems as though a new public figure enters the foray to offer their verdict on who is to blame for mistakes made in the UK response to coronavirus. Today Boris Johnson committed to holding an official inquiry to find out just this. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Johnson said – in response to a question from Lib Dem leadership hopeful Ed Davey – that although he does not think now is the time for it, there would have to be an independent inquiry in the future:
‘Of course Mr Speaker we will seek to learn the lessons of this pandemic in the future and certainly we will have an independent inquiry into what happened.’
While this is the first time the Prime Minister has firmly committed to a public inquiry, it has been viewed as inevitable for some time.
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