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Covid Inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided completely

Covid Inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided completely

Update: 2025-11-21
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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has found that the government response to the pandemic was "too little, too late" - imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives. Worse still, lockdowns could have been avoided altogether, had Boris Johnson’s Conservative government acted with the urgency that was so obviously needed. James asks his callers lay their emotions bare and share the most significant, and often tragic, moments of the pandemic with him.

And, Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking at least £40,000 in pro-Russia bribes - James takes the sentencing live.

This episode was recorded on the 21st of November. Catch James O'Brien weekdays from 10am on LBC.

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Covid Inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided completely

Covid Inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided completely