The short amount of time allocated for former government ministers including David Cameron and George Osborne to be cross-examined at the Covid-19 public inquiry next week has been described as “alarming” by lawyers for the bereaved.
Cameron will become the first politician to give evidence under oath when he is sworn in on Monday, the inquiry announced. He will be followed by Osborne, as well as Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor; and Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, as the inquiry steps up its investigation into the UK’s preparedness for the pandemic that has claimed at least 226,977 lives in the country.
