Officials relied on “toxic and chaotic” leadership under Boris Johnson and did “too little, too late,” a report has found

The UK’s central and local governments failed in their handling of the Covid-19 crisis, leading to thousands of additional deaths, according to a damning report from the official public inquiry into the pandemic response.

Authorities in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland did “too little, too late,” as timely measures such as self-isolation, household quarantine, and social distancing could have prevented 23,000 deaths, the report said, citing computer modelling.

The inquiry found the administrations were too…

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