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Chancellor and former health secretary tells Covid inquiry Britain was too slow to test and isolate

Mr Dowden, who was minister for the Cabinet Office from July 2019 to February 202, was giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

A Cabinet Office official accepted that lockdowns, lengthy closure of schools and ‘total economic collapse’ were not considered in pandemic planning.

Former PM told by Cabinet Office she was not on the list of approved nominations as early as February

Sam Jacobs, representing the Trades Union Congress, said the department’s position ‘smacks of having something to hide’.

Three years on from the start of the pandemic, the Inquiry heard how the virus 'left in its wake death, misery and incalculable loss'

The UK is facing three byelections in constituencies all vacated within 24 hours of one another. Former prime minister Boris Johnson announced he was leaving parliament with immediate effect on June 9, leaving his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituents in need of a new MP. His vocal supporter Nadine Dorries…

In the fog of the Tory civil war it’s good to know how we got here, writes Sean O’Grady

A Government lawyer said it would ‘not be appropriate’ to take steps that could lead to legally-contested material being submitted.