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The way Boris Johnson made decisions was 'unique', Sir Chris Whitty says

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The way Boris Johnson made decisions during the Covid pandemic was “unique” and he had a “distinct” style, Sir Chris Whitty has told the Covid Inquiry on Tuesday.

England’s chief medical officer also claimed that the Government would have paid much more attention to a terrorist threat than it did to the risks posed by Covid-19 amid a “systemic failure”.

Sir Chris admitted that allowing mass gatherings such as sporting events to continue as the pandemic emerged was “logically incoherent” to the public, adding that mass gatherings "is one of the things I would

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