Is the COVID inquiry missing the point?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The evidence from those at the heart of Downing Street has certainly provided plenty of bombshell headlines but does the inquiry need to move quicker to make recommendations on how the country could be better prepared for the next pandemic?
There is no specific timescale for how long the inquiry could last and it could be years before its final report is published.
On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to our health correspondent Ashish Joshi about the lessons we've learned so far.
Plus, what does it take to lead a public inquiry? Hugh Pennington, an emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, chaired a public inquiry about an E. coli outbreak in South Wales. He tells Niall what he makes of the COVID inquiry.
Producer: Alex Edden
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:00.7 | The COVID inquiry has barely been gathering evidence for five months, |
| 1:04.4 | and already it has generated its fair share of headline-grabbing moments. |
| 1:10.0 | We're going to have to coarsen our language somewhere. |
| 1:12.1 | I think we're absolutely... |
| 1:13.1 | I think this country is heading for a disaster. |
| 1:15.6 | Unbelievably bullish. We're going to be great at everything. |
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| 1:22.1 | There was a lack of transparency on the economic side. |
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