Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic and chaotic culture” at No 10 while poor decision-making and delays in introducing a lockdown contributed to the deaths of more than 20,000 people during the pandemic, a highly critical report has found.
The second report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry also found that the views of women were often ignored by the then prime minister and his closest aides, while Mr Johnson is also said to have demonstrated a “failure to appreciate the urgency of the situation” during the early days of the pandemic.
