A delay to locking Britain down during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in about 23,000 more deaths due to a toxic, chaotic and dithering response of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government, a report by a public inquiry concluded on Thursday.
Britain recorded more than 230,000 deaths from COVID, a similar death rate to the United States and Italy, but higher than elsewhere in western Europe, and it is still recovering from the economic consequences.
An inquiry, which Johnson ordered in May 2021, delivered a blistering assessment of his government's response to the outbreak, criticizing his indecisive leadersh
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