A public inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by the government is to be held in the UK in 2022. However, concerns are being raised that spring 2022 was "simply too late to begin" the inquiry.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that an independent Coronavirus public inquiry will be held in spring 2022.
He said, the government was "fully committed to learning the lessons at every stage of this crisis". The inquiry will place "the state's actions under the microscope", he added.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmern asked the reasons why this inquiry could not be started earlier. The PM said, this Coronavirus inquiry could not "inadvertently distract" those within government advisers and the NHS who were continuing to deal with this Covid-19 situation.
He added that because of new virus variant threat and possible winter surge in infection, spring could be the right time to hold it.
"Should these [variants] prove highly transmissible and elude the protectio...
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