Covid Inquiry – “Week of potentially damning testimony.”

It’s an important week for the Covid Inquiry – with key figures at the heart of government due to give evidence. The list of witnesses the inquiry is about to call up ranges from political aides — some of whom have an ax to grind — to lower-profile civil servants who were key to the pandemic response. Their collective evidence will shine a light on how the COVID crisis was handled by ex-PM Boris Johnson’s administration.

Giving evidence this morning are Martin Reynolds and Johnson’s former Private Secretary for Public Services Imran Shafi. In the afternoon the inquiry hears from Johnson’s first director of comms Lee Cain. While Dominic Cummings gives evidence tomorrow