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The Covid Inquiry Enquiries

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The latest evidence to the Covid Inquiry included the revelation that the former health secretary Matt Hancock wanted to decide “who should live or die” in the event of the NHS becoming overwhelmed. That was the testimony given by Sir Simon Stevens, who led NHS England until 2021. His was followed by the country’s most senior health official, Sir Christopher Wormald, who said that the government was “at least a week late” in imposing restrictions on society at the beginning of the crisis. Laura Kuenssberg joins Adam to give her own reflections as the BBC’s political editor during the period as well as an assessment of the evidence we’ve heard this week. And, on the final day of the UK’s first AI safety summit, Adam and Chris chat to Michael Kratsios, President Donald Trump's top technology advisor, about the goals of the summit and how countries can work together to mitigate the risks posed by artificial intelligence. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by George Dabby with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello newscasters, Chris Basin here.

0:01.8

This is our Thursday episode.

0:03.6

The day when the podcast is also on the telly BBC One

0:06.7

after question time and the BBC iPlayer.

0:09.2

If you're not already, why don't you try subscribing to us

0:11.6

or following us on BBC Sounds or wherever you find your podcasts

0:15.3

and then we'll pop up in your feeds every time

0:17.8

we publish an episode.

0:19.2

Thanks a lot.

0:20.2

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:24.6

Hello, if you were listening to newscast the podcast

0:26.8

on BBC Sounds on Wednesday, you would have heard us

0:29.3

talking about the evidence that was given to the COVID inquiry

0:32.1

by Helen McNamara, who was the deputy cabinet secretary

0:35.8

at the start of the pandemic.

0:36.8

So a really senior civil servant.

0:38.9

What happened after she'd given evidence

0:40.9

and after we'd recorded the episode

0:42.9

is that the inquiry published on the website

0:45.1

her full witness statement, which was more than 100 pages long.

0:48.8

So over my coffee this morning, I decided to have a read of it

0:51.4

to see if there was any kind of extra clues in there.

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