Baroness Hallett’s UK Covid-19 Inquiry report must be an Emperor’s New Clothes Moment in British politics. She lays out in black and white that the idle and capricious Boris Johnson was naked of the judgement, empathy and self-discipline which the nation has a right to expect from its prime ministers, especially at times of crisis.

Equally, we can see clearly now that Dominic Cummings, his closest aide during the pandemic, was not the free-thinking genius he pretends to be, but the mirthless jester of Johnson’s court, whose contribution was entirely negative.

His destructive role goes beyond the hypocrisy of his flagrant breach of the restrictions the government imposed on everyone else with his infamous dash to his father-in-law’s estate in Durham. The report states that his “eye-test” drive to the beauty spots of Barnard Castle “undermined........

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