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By: Nummero
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Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has said the time for a public inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic is “coming close”. In a statement issued by Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which is campaigning for an inquiry, Welby said:
I’ve said since very early on that there should be a public inquiry at the right time and again I think that must be coming close now. It should be very independent, very wide ranging. I think a public inquiry has to be very much about lessons to be learned.
It just stretches forever, it’s been completely overwhelming. I was unprepared for the visual force of this wall. It’s just profoundly moving.
There are over 150,000 hearts, each one representing a human life. Everyone grieves differently but one of the things that’s really important in grieving is actions, doing something is very often very, very helpful. So do come down and add to the wall.
The DUP’s Ian Paisley has told MPs about a company in Northern Ireland dealing in land rovers that had to complete 1,610 fields of data just to get vehicle parts from Great Britain owing to Brexit checks.
Paisley, a member of the Northern Ireland affairs committee, told colleagues during a hearing that the company found the paperwork so time consuming that they felt the resource devoted to it would wipe out his margin or profit.
