About this episode
Baroness Hallett presents her second report on the UK government's pandemic response, concluding it was 'too little, too late'.
Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Inquiry, delivers her second report into the way the four governments of the UK responded to the pandemic. Summarising her conclusions as 'too little, too late', she outlines a failure by each government "to appreciate the scale of the threat or the urgency of the response it demanded". Jim Reed reports.
People in this episode
Guest: Jim Reed
Topics covered
- UK government response
- pandemic inquiry
- Baroness Hallett
- report findings
- COVID-19
- government failures
Keywords
- COVID-19
- pandemic
- UK government
- Baroness Hallett
- inquiry report
- Jim Reed
- government response
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BBC Radio 4, UK
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