So we have received the report by the parliamentary committees on the Covid pandemic. Not the official inquiry, which Boris Johnson has kicked into next year, with publication not expected until 2023/24 or whatever date comes after the next election.
He has acknowledged that his government is incapable of surviving a critical examination; its vocabulary does not even include apology. It is all about capturing the kudos. But kudos is for conscious effort, not for nefarious claims. Liz Truss, the former trade secretary, claimed that she had done a great trade deal with Australia that turned out to be less effective than the previous one between the EU and Australia. She then got promoted to the Foreign Office because Dominic Rab was on holiday instead of managing the evacuation of UK citizens and employees in Afghanistan.
One thing is certain: Johnson will not be around when a report on the Covid epidemic eventually emerges, nor will the cast of fellow ministers who have led the mismanagement of the UK's response. Why we have to wait so long when there are already reports from the BMA and others that are far more discerning and objective than the litany of excuses and lies from the PM is a measure of how discredited our political leadership has become. It is time to revamp our outdated democratic systems. The hegemony of increasingly autocratic political party leadership, allied with lobbyists and special advisers, is not only anti-democratic but also an opening for corruption.
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