Prime Minister's Questions - 15 July 2020 - BBC News
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Boris Johnson has committed to a full independent inquiry into the coronavirus crisis.

And we know from inquiries we've seen before - whether it's the Iraq inquiry or the Leveson inquiry into the media, or Bloody Sunday into the army in Northern Ireland - they have the potential to shape and shatter the reputations of the most powerful and to probe their innermost thinking and calculations in moments of crisis.

But there are an awful lot of unanswered questions.

We still don't really know what the prime minister meant when he talked about an independent inquiry - it could be a full blown judge-led inquiry, or it could be a much lower calibre investigation led by an academic or maybe a select committee.

We don't know the timeframe. The prime minister has indicated he does not think an inquiry should be held while we're still grappling with coronavirus. So it could be months, even years away if we're having to wait to actually eliminate the virus or get a vaccine.

And we don't know the remit of the inquiry or the authority it will have; will it be the sort of inquiry where witnesses are questioned under oath by barristers.

With the number of deaths from coronavirus, the catastrophe that has inflicted on care homes, and because it's involved the government imposing restrictions on us never seen before in peacetime, my sense is it will have to be a similar sort of inquiry to that into the Iraq war.