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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Austerity chiefs David Cameron and George Osborne hauled before Covid Inquiry next week

David Cameron and George Osborne will be grilled on how austerity left Britain unprepared for the pandemic at the Covid Inquiry next week.

The former Prime Minister and his Chancellor are understood to be on the witness list, where they will likely face questions on how brutal Tory cuts undermined the NHS, social care and welfare state.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who was Health Secretary between 2012 and 2018, is also expected to give evidence to the Inquiry, as part of its probe into how prepared the UK was for the arrival of the deadly virus.

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