COVID-19/Public Inquiry
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| Date | 28 June 2022 - Present |
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| Description | UK "independent" inquiry to whitewash the British government's handling of the Covid "pandemic". Will not touch COVID-19/Medical killings or Covid jabs. |
The COVID-19/Public Inquiry is an "independent" public inquiry into the British government's handling of the Covid "pandemic" in the United Kingdom. Public hearings are expected to begin in 2023.
In December 2021, Baroness Hallett was announced as the chair of the Covid Inquiry. Indicating how "independent" she and the inquiry actually is, Hallett had previously been appointed as the chair of the public inquiry into the into the death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018, part of the false flag Skripal Affair.[1]
The draft terms of the Covid Inquiry include the UK's preparedness for the pandemic, the use of lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions, pandemic management in hospitals and care homes, equipment procurement, and the financial support made available, up to June 2022. It will noticeably avoid the subject of the government's COVID-19/Medical killings with the drug Midazolam and Do Not Resuscitate orders, given with the intent to increase number of deaths, to create the illusion of a pandemic. It will also not cover anything around the Covid "vaccine".
Background
There had been prior proposals to launch a public inquiry from senior doctors, the BMA, government scientific advisers, and ethnic minority group leaders. These proposals included looking into lockdown tactics, the "test, track and trace" service, and deaths related to the COVID-19/Pandemic in the United Kingdom.
Boris Johnson announced the inquiry on 12 May 2021, to start in Spring 2022
On 15 December 2021, Baroness Hallett was announced as the chair of the inquiry. Unlike other public inquiries, a statutory public inquiry has the power to subpoena people and take evidence under oath. The Covid Inquiry will be the biggest ever such undertaking by the UK government.
Terms of reference
Draft terms of reference were announced on 11 March 2022. Issues covered included the UK's preparedness, the use of lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions, pandemic management in hospitals and care homes, equipment procurement, and the financial support made available. It will cover the period up to and including the Covid Inquiry being established on 28 June 2022, and England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will noticeably avoid the subject of the government's COVID-19/Medical killings, done with intent to increase number of deaths. It will also not cover anything around the Covid "vaccine".
Focusing on some very small parts of Covid, designed to be a limited hangout, Keir Starmer, the Leader of the Opposition, and Care Campaign for the Vulnerable both criticised the decision to omit Partygate, where the PM held a party when everybody else was under house arrest, from the terms. A former Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, called the lack of focus on children's experiences in lockdown a "shocking oversight".
Public consultation on the terms ran from 11 March until 7 April 2022 and received over 20,000 responses. Baroness Hallett has said she would consider these responses and present her revised recommendations to Boris Johnson in May 2022. Final terms of reference were published on 28 June 2022, allowing the inquiry to formally commence and public hearings to begin in 2023.[2] The first preliminary public hearing took place on 4 October 2022.[3]
Call for evidence
The Covid Inquiry had called for diaries and WhatsApp messages by Boris Johnson to be handed over but the Cabinet Office supplied only redacted versions. The Inquiry then asked for the unredacted material, which led to an argument in May 2023, with the Cabinet Office contemplating legal arbitration and judicial review over the matter. On 31 May 2023, a spokesman for the former PM said:
- "All Boris Johnson's material - including WhatsApps and notebooks - requested by the Covid Inquiry has been handed to the Cabinet Office in full and in unredacted form.
- "Mr Johnson urges the Cabinet Office to urgently disclose it to the Inquiry.
- "The Cabinet Office has had access to this material for several months. Mr Johnson would immediately disclose it directly to the Inquiry if asked.
- "While Mr Johnson understands the government's position, and does not seek to contradict it, he is perfectly happy for the Inquiry to have access to this material in whatever form it requires."[4]
On 1 June 2023, the Cabinet Office said it was seeking a judicial review of inquiry into chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s order to release the documents, arguing that it should not have to hand over material which is “unambiguously irrelevant”.[5]
References
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-59671067
- ↑ "Chair's open letter to the public"
- ↑ "UK COVID-19 Inquiry: terms of reference"
- ↑ "Boris Johnson hands over all his Covid notebooks and WhatsApp messages to the government and tells ministers to hand them over to official inquiry 'urgently' amid row over transparency"
- ↑ "Government seeks judicial review of Covid inquiry’s demand for Johnson documents"
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