Molly Kingsley, Arabella Skinner and Ben Kingsley

The Government sidelined and then shut down its ethics committee after it tried to intervene on the vaccination of children, it has emerged in a scandal that raises serious questions about the Government's Covid response.

The Covid Inquiry is now hopelessly compromised by the partisan words of its own Chair. It has become an embarrassment and is jeopardising the reputation of the English legal system.