Baroness Heather Hallett finds a mandatory lockdown in 2020 was made "inevitable" by a "lack of urgency" across governments ...

Those in charge failed to learn from their mistake of delaying lockdown, leading to a far greater loss of lives.

A damning report published on Thursday claimed there was "a toxic and chaotic culture at the centre of the UK government ...

The COVID inquiry has said if the government had brought in lock down one week earlier it could have saved up to 23,000 lives.

Baroness Heather Hallett said evidence showed that, had the first mandatory lockdown been introduced a week earlier in 2020, ...