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Scan through the terms of reference for the £200m Covid inquiry, and you might notice one glaring omission among the subjects it covers: the economy.
Even before Baroness Hallett began her five-year dissection of the Government’s response to the pandemic, she donned a set of blinkers that blocked the economic impact of lockdowns from view.
The implications of this are profound: a public inquiry whose most important function is to prepare Britain for a future pandemic will largely ignore the damage done to people’s lives and livelihoods by closing the country for business.
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Scan through the terms of reference for the £200m Covid inquiry, and you might notice one glaring omission among the subjects it covers: the economy.
Even before Baroness Hallett began her five-year dissection of the Government’s response to the pandemic, she donned a set of blinkers that blocked the economic impact of lockdowns from view.
The implications of this are profound: a public inquiry whose most important function is to prepare Britain for a future pandemic will largely ignore the damage done to people’s lives and livelihoods by closing the country for business.
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