Learning from the UK’s response to COVID-19

In this paper, Honorary Fellow Gus O’Donnell and co-author Harry Begg put forward a five-part framework that assesses the UK’s poor performance – medical, social and economic – in the face of coronavirus, compared to peer countries. They also propose how to shape an independent inquiry into the country’s performance.

(Gus O’Donnell and Harry Begg, ‘Far from Well: The UK since COVID‐19, and Learning to Follow the Science(s)’. Published in Fiscal Studies 41(4):761-804, doi: 10.1111/1475-5890.12253.)