Boris Johnson’s performance at the UK Covid Inquiry will have given not one crumb of comfort to the bereaved mourning almost 250,000 deaths from the virus.

There was nothing substantial, or satisfactory, in his answers for people like Jan Gillan and her three daughters, who couldn’t be with her husband Mark as he battled the virus – or the thousands of other families in Scotland who are left with questions over their loved ones’ deaths.

Instead, Johnson tried to play to the gallery by starting off his evidence with an apology. But when inquiry counsel Hugo Keith pressed him on what he was apologising for, he wriggled like a fat pike on a hook – and made as much sense.

All the inquiry got was Johnson’s typical bluster and waffle.

He was similarly obtuse when it came to the 5000 missing WhatsApp messages delivered during the height of........

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