George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt and Oliver Dowden also slated to give testimony to public inquiry next week

David Cameron will become the first politician to give evidence under oath at the UK Covid-19 public inquiry next week when the former prime minister is cross-examined on Monday, the inquiry has announced.

The former chancellor George Osborne will also give evidence on Tuesday and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, and Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, will become the first serving cabinet ministers to enter the witness box when they are sworn in on Wednesday as the inquiry steps up its investigation into the UK’s preparedness for the pandemic that claimed at least 226,977 lives in the country.

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