Great Britain - A commission of inquiry is now being summoned in the realm of the dead

Overtaking against Italy by number of deaths has rekindled the debate in the United Kingdom on the advisability of an independent public investigation, in due course, to evaluate the government's response to the coronavirus emergency and its shortcomings. And for the first time from Downing Street, something like this is no longer excluded once the pandemic is over. "There will be time to do it," Boris Johnson himself finally opened a window to a commission. Now that the calculation of British deaths from Covid-19 has become the highest in Europe, second only to the United States globally, the critical findings of the many who have not shared the strategy of the executive. From the hesitation of the first weeks to the premature suspension of the tracing of the infections, from the lack of protection measures (Dpi) for health workers to the delays in the tests: these are some of the accusations that some scientists, doctors and trade unionists have imputed to the government. Which for its part has always entrenched itself behind compliance with the recommendations of its scientific advisors.
    Even in recent days, when asked on the subject, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, Johnson's alternate during the prime minister's absence for coronavirus, had reiterated once more that a hypothetical commission of investigation was not a priority: "When we will have overcome this crisis, we will make the necessary assessments ". But faced with the continental primacy of the dead, while insisting on the fallacy of comparing the different methods of counting between different countries, Downing Street also seems to have resigned itself to taking a softer position. Without refusing a priori to let their work be verified by third parties and to "draw lessons", albeit only with bowls still and after the emergency will be over for everyone, as suggested by Johnson himself, in his first Question Time in the House of Commons after illness. "At all times we have been guided by a single principle: saving human lives and protecting the national health system - the words of the prime minister -. The time will come to evaluate the decisions we have made and if we could have taken different ones".