Bereaved families call for judge-led public inquiry into UK Covid response
by Robert Booth and Ian Sample from Science | The Guardian on (#5FDK0)
Boris Johnson can decide whether to heed calls for wide-ranging inquiry or keep a tighter focus
The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group has told Downing Street it wants a statutory public inquiry led by a senior judge to determine a definitive, official, evidence-based narrative of what did and did not happen, independent of political influence" during the pandemic. The group considers it potentially cathartic and wants the families' grief heard.
Frontline health workers also want a wide-ranging inquiry to provide a platform for their experiences, while minority ethnic leaders believe an inquiry can only determine what went wrong if wider societal inequalities relating to work, health and housing are investigated.
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