A devastating new account of Year Covid exposes the Prime Minister’s utter failure to meet the nation’s greatest health crisis for a century. His deadly delay in imposing lockdowns caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths and brought heartbreak to families in every corner of the land. They quote lawyers for the bereaved families, who say the Prime Minister’s actions during the pandemic leave the government vulnerable to civil claims for negligence and violation of human rights. The government emergency committee – Cobra – met five times to consider what might happen if Covid-19 (as it was now named) reached the UK. “In Britain there was a wishful thinking by the Prime Minister that everything would turn out to be okay, and it was not.

Source: Daily Mirror March 19, 2021 13:18 UTC