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Friday's national newspaper front pages
The independent inquiry found pandemic delays caused 23,000 avoidable deaths and criticized the UK government's slow and chaotic response during the first wave, Baroness Hallett said.
- On Friday, national newspapers led with the COVID inquiry's headline findings that 23,000 people died unnecessarily in the UK, and Baroness Hallett said the response was 'too little, too late'.
- Baroness Hallett's inquiry detailed timing problems including a 'lost month' in February 2020 and painted a 'consistent picture of delay, inaction and apparent inability to learn lessons'.
- The report accuses Downing Street of a 'toxic, sexist and chaotic' culture, with Boris Johnson's administration breaking its own rules amid the Partygate scandal, while The Independent said he 'failed to appreciate the urgency' of the pandemic.
- Critics argued the inquiry was a costly exercise and 'told what we already knew', calling it a '200m'‑pound waste, while a Strictly Come Dancing star was arrested last month and Daily Express launched a wheelchair appeal with charity Whizz Kidz.
- Amid front‑page fallout, papers highlighted social harms as school closures in 2020 halted ordinary childhood, while the Financial Times reported migration reforms that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood called the 'biggest overhaul of the migration model in 50 years'.
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