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Jamie Maxwell

The First Draft Account of the U.K.’s COVID-19 Catastrophe Is Damning

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in London on Nov. 3. EDDIE MULHOLLAND/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus , Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott, Mudlark, 432 pp., $28.99, May 2021
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