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WhatsApp with the Covid Inquiry?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

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The Importance of Preparation for the Pandemic

There's going to be concrete recommendations and findings roughly every six months after each module's taken its evidence. And that's really interesting, I think, because there are some things that are going to go beyond the next election on this timetable. So what Hallette's done is actually turn this public inquiry into almost like a commentary on how well the British state is functioning and has functioned. That's very different from all previous public inquiries. It affected every single one of us, the pandemic. This affected everybody. We know that WhatsApp is kind of embedded in government and has been for at least the last four or five years - it's an easy way of communicating. But it does mean

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