COVID inquiry chair Baroness Hallett 'may have to resign if ministers win WhatsApp battle'

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The chair of the COVID inquiry has been warned the "only logical response" if she lost the WhatsApp battle with the government would be for her to resign.

Solicitor Elkan Abrahamson, who represents the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, spoke following the government's decision to launch a judicial review into Baroness Hallett's bid for unredacted material to be handed over.

 

Mr Abrahamson stressed he was not calling on her to quit but that she would face little choice if the courts sided with the government over the documents.

[Scott]

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[Eleftheros]

The conclusion will be "mistakes were made, and lessons have been learned to ensure this never happens again. There were collective failures, which have been addressed, and nobody should be singled out for blame."

 

We should expect very little indeed from the "Covid Inquiry" overall, with or without Baroness Hallett. That side issue is just more smoke and mirrors.

 

Anyone who retains any lingering optimism that the Inquiry might challenge the dominant narrative (that ‘the science’ supported lockdowns and the government’s main error was in failing to lock down ‘harder and earlier’) can banish it from their minds.

 

 

 

 

[NanLaew]

I'll strive to be less inflammatory this time. Since it was Tory infighting that forced the Brexit vote upon the nation, this is simply more of the same where an outwardly popular Prime Minister can't get his own house in order so chooses the nuclear option.

 

...then he resigns.