From the moment he slipped in at dawn, before most of the bereaved who planned to confront him had arrived, to his departure in a hail of boos, Boris Johnson’s first appearance at the Covid-19 public inquiry proved by turns frustrating and enraging for many.
Families who squeezed into a packed hearing room in west London to see him finally testify about the key decisions that preceded their loved ones’ deaths observed what they described as a “casual, careless and chaotic” former leader.
