In the next edition of Counsel Nick Brown, Frederick Powell and I write about the need for an immediate start to the promised COVID-19 inquiry, so that important early lessons are learned now, ahead of a second or further waves of the disease...
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Let's get it done: a full COVID-19 inquiry!
I am sure there will come a moment when lessons need to be learned – indeed we are learning them the whole time – but I do not consider at the moment that a full-scale national inquiry is a good use of official time. Boris Johnson, 23 June 2020

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