Boris Johnson highlights crossbench peer’s experience with ‘high-profile and complex inquiries’ as he announces decision to MPs

Lady Hallett, a former senior appeal court judge, has been appointed to chair the public inquiry into the Covid pandemic.

Hallett, 71, a crossbench life peer, was coroner in the inquest into the 7 July 2005 terror attacks on London’s transport network that claimed 52 lives.

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