‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of toxic and chaotic' culture inside Boris Johnson's No 10

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The UK's response to Covid was too little, too late", a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

The document also has stinging criticism of a toxic and chaotic" culture inside Boris Johnson's Downing Street - which it said the then prime minister actively embraced.