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At the Covid Inquiry, Dame Angela McLean, who branded Rishi Sunak 'Dr Death' in WhatsApps, said ministers 'made the same mistake three times' by locking down too late

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock will appear at the Covid Inquiry next week alongside the ex-Deputy PM Dominic Raab and a host of city mayors including Andy Burnham

Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the Covid Inquiry the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool's Champions League match before lockdown should have been cancelled

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could face a ferocious backlash after it emerged from the Covid inquiry that he allegedly said the government should 'just let people die' during the pandemic

Ex-Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance handed his private diaries to the Covid Inquiry which detail extraordinary claims over the running of Government during the pandemic

Top scientist Sir Patrick Vallance kept a bombshell diary on the Government’s handling of the pandemic that details the chaos in Downing Street, including Boris Johnson's actions

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's handwritten note to colleagues was shown as the former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel faced a grilling from the Covid Inquiry

Lord Mark Sedwill, who was Cabinet Secretary at the start of the pandemic, admitted emergency planners "couldn't cope" with the crisis and warned of "stupid decisions" in a dispute over Mr Cummings' data

Dr Ben Warner, who scrawled the word in a February 2020 meeting with scientists, said ministers should have drawn up lockdown plans as soon as China and Italy did so

The shamed former Prime Minister is claimed to have made the remark in a meeting in January 2021, when he demanded restrictions were fully lifted by September

Nearly four in 10 people said the revelations heard by the Covid Inquiry this week had worsened their opinion of the Tories’ pandemic record, according to a survey by More in Common

The Labour leader said the revelations from Baroness Heather Hallett's public inquiry this week shone a light on the behaviour of those at the top of No10 at the height of the crisis

The former boss of NHS England Lord Stevens said Matt Hancock 'took the ­position that he, rather than the medical profession, should decide who should live and die'

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Lord Simon Stevens, former chief executive of NHS England, told the Covid Inquiry that there were "occasional moments of tension and flashpoints", but squirmed as he was asked about Mr Hancock's honesty

Bombshell witness statements from former advisor Dominic Cummings say the then-PM had to be "stopped" from seeing the Queen days before lockdown

Minutes of a Cabinet meeting show the PM insisted it would be wrong to 'overreact' after the first patients in UK tested positive for coronavirus, before he took 10-day holiday

In an often foul-mouthed and frequently chilling three days, Downing Street insiders shared memories and WhatsApp messages that demonstrated the scale of the turmoil in Boris Johnson's government

Helen MacNamara, who was Britain’s most senior female civil servant, said Boris Johnson let the country down by not tackling the 'toxic' culture in Downing Street

The Covid Inquiry has shined light on the chaos in No10 in the lead up to the first lockdown, with Boris Johnson suggesting Covid is "nature’s way of dealing with old people"

The then-PM questioned Government health experts on whether people could get rid of coronavirus with hot air after he watched a YouTube clip that suggested this

The actor and singer, whose mum Gloria passed away in lockdown, said she was 'deeply shocked and offended' by Boris Johnson's attitude towards older people during Covid

In a scathing series of WhatsApp messages Mr Cummings said the former PM was "melting down" in the buildup to the first lockdown and branded officials "terrifyingly s***"

Evidence from Boris Johnson's ex-adviser Dominic Cummings and his ex-communications chief Lee Cain revealed the terrifying chaos at the heart of No10 during the pandemic