Covid sceptics fail in latest campaign

Covid sceptics are not going to get the all reaching parliamentary inquiry into how the government handled the pandemic.

Campaigners need 100,000 signatures are needed to call on voters to back the idea – but they admit they’re going to fail. They only have 52,000 and the deadline is Wednesday. 

The aim of the initiative was to scrutinise the decisions made by ministers and if they were ‘proportionate and in line with the constitution.’

It would have also considered if any should face prosecution.

But the campaign failed to find sufficient backing – especially in the French speaking regions, where it fell below the radar. 

The press points out there’s only one French speaker on the organisation’s committee.

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