£200m Covid inquiry was never about solutions – but about kicking Boris Johnson in goolies

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. So is the luxury of spending £200million on a Covid inquiry which tells us nothing we don’t already and has turned out to be an expensive Boris-bashing exercise. The ex-PM has been accused of causing 23,000 deaths by not acting fast enough and presiding over a “chaotic response” to the pandemic. Of course it was bloody chaotic. It was unprecedented. The whole world was in chaos. But there were only two questions this inquiry had to answer – did lockdowns save lives and what do we do if it happens again? And neither have been, which is why Lady Hallett, who’s heading it, should be ashamed of presiding over this monumental waste of taxpayers’ cash. Instead of the inquiry finding answers she and her colleagues have used it to slate Boris for doing “too little