COVID-19: Reaction to highly critical COVID report, as Cummings brands prime minister and Labour leader 'jokes'

The prime minister's former adviser, Dominic Cummings, has branded both Boris Johnson and the Labour leader as 'jokes' in the wake of the highly critical report into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. His remarks were made following the publication of the MPs' report which said thousands of lives were lost due to delays and mistakes by both ministers and their scientific advisers as coronavirus began to spread. The report published by the health and social care committee and the science and technology committee, titled Coronavirus: Lessons learned to date, covers a variety of successes and failings across 150 pages.