FORMER health secretary Jeremy Hunt offered a grovelling apology today for Tory failures in Britain’s pandemic preparations highlighted by the Covid inquiry.

In its first report, published on Thursday, the inquiry found the government had “failed” the public due to “significant flaws” in preparing for a pandemic.

Mr Hunt admitted that as health secretary between 2012 and 2018, he had been “part of a ‘group-think’ where we overprepared for pandemic flu: we didn’t think about other types of pandemic.”