WhatsAppening at the Covid Inquiry?

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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It was a day of explosive evidence and revealing WhatsApp messages at today’s session of the Covid inquiry. First up was former senior civil servant Martin Reynolds, who apologised “unreservedly” for organising BYOB lockdown parties. He also faced questions on why messages in a WhatsApp group of government officials were ‘set to disappear’. He was then followed by another aide, Imran Shafi, who said he thought Boris Johnson had questioned why the economy was being destroyed "for people who will die anyway soon". To talk us through the latest findings from the Covid inquiry, Adam and Chris are joined by BBC health reporter Jim Reed and the Institute for Government’s Dr Catherine Haddon. 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 Alex Collins. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editors are Sam Bonham and Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.9	Chris, I went to see that new Martin Scorsese film
0:07.1	on Sunday night.
0:07.9	It's three and a half hours long.
0:09.7	Oh, just a mere three and a half hours.
0:11.4	I'll watch it twice.
0:12.8	Which is, but the three and a half hours,
0:14.1	it's actually shorter than the amount of evidence
0:15.9	there was today at the COVID inquiry.
0:17.6	Well, that is true.
0:18.6	That is true.
0:19.4	Although there were little breaks in the COVID inquiry
0:21.3	to allow you to stretch your legs.
0:22.7	I didn't about to go to the loop.
0:24.5	Sorry.
0:25.3	In the cinema.
0:26.3	Sorry, Martin Scorsese, who's nickname is Marty
0:28.1	and actually one of the people giving evidence today
0:30.1	who's known as Marty as well.
0:31.2	So there's another little echo.
0:32.9	Three and a half hours.
0:33.7	That was way too long, isn't it?
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