
Have you been following the Covid inquiry? Away from the front pages, which have mostly been occupied by other stories, revelation after appalling revelation has been spilling out, confirming our very worst fears about what went on in Downing Street as the Covid pandemic hit.
The building was the scene, really, of two Covid scandals. There was partygate — the splashy scandal, a colourful display of hypocrisy — and then there was the other, unnamed scandal, a depressing display of incompetence, less eye-catching but much worse because it actually cost lives.