The outgoing Lord Speaker has piled the pressure on Boris Johnson to launch a formal public inquiry into the Government s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Lord Fowler, who is stepping down today after five years in the role, said a probe should be held as soon as possible and before memories fade .
Lord Fowler, who served as Tory health secretary between 1981 and 1987 in Margaret Thatcher s government, said the inquiry should be automatic and should focus on whether there was a delay to announcing the first lockdown last March.
The peer is the latest high profile figure to call on the Prime Minister to launch the inquiry after Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the same earlier this month.
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