‘Skill set of a clown’: Covid bereaved frustrated by Boris Johnson evidence

Families who had travelled to see former PM say inquiry appearance showed him to be careless and chaotic'

From the moment he slipped in at dawn, before most of the bereaved who planned to confront him had arrived, to his departure in a hail of boos, Boris Johnson's first appearance at the Covid-19 public inquiry proved by turns frustrating and enraging for many.

Families who squeezed into a packed hearing room in west London to see him finally testify about the key decisions that preceded their loved ones' deaths observed what they described as a casual, careless and chaotic" former leader.