The government will not claim it did everything right during the pandemic, its lawyer has told the official inquiry into Covid-19.
It marks a departure from the frequent claim by Boris Johnson and his allies that he and the Tory government got the “big calls right”. Matt Hancock, who was health secretary during the pandemic, also said during his stint on ‘I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!’ that he did not regret any decisions made during his tenure.
Speaking at the Covid-19 inquiry today, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) lawyer Fiona Scalding expressed “humility” and said the government understood people felt “certain decisions made by us were wrong.”
