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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by James Heel and Michael Simmons, the Spectators Data

editor.

So today was meant to be one of the blockbuster days in the COVID inquiry with Boris Johnson, giving evidence for the first time and

here's a little bit of what he had to say in his opening statement.

Could I say by all leave that I understand the feelings of these victims and their families and

I am deeply sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering of those victims and their families.

And grateful though I am to the hundreds of thousands of health care workers

and many other public servants and people in all works of life

who help to protect our country throughout a dreadful pandemic.

I do hope that this inquiry will help to get the answers to the very difficult questions that those victims and those families are rightly are asking.

So James can you take us through how it went for Boris Johnson today?

Yeah so this was the first of two days of Boris Johnson's expected evidence session and I think

that it wasn't a huge surprise that the line of questioning taken by Hugo Keith

obviously there's been you know building up to this from the weeks

and weeks we've had a four where a lot of people effectively in government be

that political aides or scientists or Matt Hancock basically saying that we had a departmental brief

a specific role, it's up to the Prime Minister to decide how to adjudicate.

And you know there's also I think in fairness Marius Hallett began today by talking

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