Covid-19 Inquiry hears Sir Chris Whitty say he ‘couldn’t see the logic’ of making people stay home so much as he told of ...

An assisted dying law should not be so complicated that only those with access to top lawyers are able to use it, England’s chief medical officer has said. Professor Sir Chris Whitty also reiterated ...

England’s chief medical officer said in a recent lecture that misinformation has always accompanied medical progress—and that the battle is winnable if we can talk honestly about uncertainty “Through ...

Chaos at the heart of Boris Johnson’s government and his failure to take Covid seriously led to 23,000 deaths, a damning ...

There should have been a “more liberal” approach to the amount of time people were allowed to spend outside during the Covid-19 pandemic, the nation’s top medic has said. Just weeks into lockdown, ...

Former prime minister Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic” culture in Number 10 and regularly changed his mind ...

A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet ...

As a damning report finds all four UK governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat posed by COVID-19 or the ...

Baroness Heather Hallett’s report on the government response to Covid accuses Johnson of being too “optimistic” in his outlook in the early months of 2020 ...