CBFJ in the News
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice has featured extensively across national, regional and international media. This page highlights selected reporting, interviews and broadcasts featuring CBFJ, our members and our campaigns.
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20267 entries
Sky News
COVID inquiry latest: Boris Johnson’s government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, inquiry finds
The Guardian
‘Catastrophic failure’: UK Covid families welcome inquiry findings on PPE
PA Media / YouTube
Coronavirus bereaved address media following publication of Module 4 report
ITV News
Healthcare systems ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘close to collapse’ during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds
The Guardian
NHS was ‘on brink of collapse’ during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds
The Guardian
Covid inquiry reaches 'bittersweet' final day of witness testimony
The Independent
‘Huge moment’ for bereaved families as pandemic inquiry’s final module opens
20257 entries
Courthouse News Service
Grieving UK families demand action against ex-PM Johnson following damning Covid inquiry
The Guardian
Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report
Daily Mirror
'Our loved ones died': Covid bereaved react to damning inquiry report
ITV News
‘Unforgivable’: Bereaved families react to Covid inquiry findings
The Guardian
'Full of excuses': families condemn Matt Hancock's testimony to Covid inquiry
Daily Mirror
Covid Inquiry: ‘Generational slaughter’ as infected patients sent into care homes
Sky News
‘Potential whitewashing’: COVID inquiry criticised after saying it won’t hear from PPE suppliers
20246 entries
The Guardian
Covid bereaved angered by Badenoch's 'insulting' Partygate remarks
The Telegraph
Covid bereaved families cannot question inquiry witnesses directly
The Guardian
Don't leave Covid and Grenfell inquiries to 'gather dust', families tell Starmer
Daily Mirror
‘Covid Inquiry report is a punch in the stomach - it shows our loved ones were failed’
The Guardian
‘Bittersweet’: Covid report does not go far enough, say bereaved families
Sky News
Grenfell, COVID and Infected Blood families ‘have no faith’ inquiry recommendations will be properly carried out
202314 entries
ITV News
‘The dead won’t hear your apologies’: Bereaved families reject Boris Johnson’s Covid ‘sorry’
Channel 4 News
‘They don’t want the truth to come out’: Matthew Fowler on the Covid-19 Inquiry
5 News
Covid bereaved react to former Health Secretary's inquiry apology
LBC
‘To forgive, there has to be contrition’: Lorelei King, wife of care home Covid-19 victim slams Matt Hancock after inquiry appearance
The Guardian
Covid and Grenfell families call for oversight of inquiry outcomes
The Guardian
Covid bereaved express disgust at Tory HQ party video as Met ‘considers’ footage
Sky News
Partygate: ‘Boris Johnson failed us so badly’, says the spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved
Good Morning Britain
Bereaved family member discusses the opening of the Covid inquiry
Sky News
COVID 19: Bereaved families want answers as inquiry begins
The Telegraph
Covid bereaved families have mixed feelings over memorial tapestry
ITV News
Bereaved families boycott Covid inquiry over company's government contracts
Sky News
COVID bereaved families accuse inquiry of ‘doubling down on racism’ decision
Sky News
COVID inquiry: Bereaved relatives experiencing ‘anxiety’ and ‘unease’ over hiring of PR firms, preliminary hearing is told
Sky News
COVID inquiry: Bereaved families feel their grief will only be made more bearable when important questions are answered
20225 entries
ITV News
What next for Matt Hancock? Five possible scenarios after I’m A Celeb exit
Sky News
COVID inquiry ‘won’t drag on for decades’, bereaved families promised
The Guardian
Families of Covid victims hit out at Boris Johnson comeback
Sky News
Our grief must be at ‘heart of COVID inquiry’, families of victims say
Sky News
Partygate: Bereaved families say ‘huge sacrifices’ while PM was ‘celebrating’ are ‘heartbreaking’
202113 entries
Sky News
Downing St party: ‘A deep, deep sense of betrayal’ - man who lost father to COVID
Sky News
COVID-19: Public inquiry should examine ‘mishandling’ by NHS 111 service during first wave of pandemic
The Guardian
Doctors and unions join bereaved families to highlight issues for Covid inquiry
ITV News
Covid report is like ‘government marking its own homework’, says bereaved son
Sky News
Bereaved families to meet Boris Johnson in Downing Street
The Guardian
Covid bereaved families group allowed at Tory conference after U-turn
The Guardian
Covid bereaved join call for Hillsborough law to force duty of candour
ITV News
Dominic Cummings: Families who lost loved ones due to Covid ‘in tears of anger and pain’ after hearing evidence
ITV News
'We owe it to families and victims to get on with Covid inquiry'
The Guardian
'It was avoidable': families bereaved in second wave call for Covid inquiry
The Guardian
Voices of the Covid bereaved: 'Our loved ones aren't just a number'
The Sunday Times
Families of Covid dead to take legal action to force inquiry
The Guardian
'An insult': fury at claim ministers did all they could in Covid crisis
202013 entries
The Guardian
'We can't grieve': online forum where Covid bereaved feel they can share
The Guardian
Blue lips and black skin: Did a standard 111 question help cause Olufemi Akinnola’s death from Covid-19?
The Guardian
‘I’m traumatised now’: Covid bereaved call for inquiry into NHS 111
BBC News
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson 'heartless' for not meeting bereaved families
Sky News
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson branded ‘heartless’ after refusing to meet families of COVID-19 victims
LBC
Boris Johnson accused of fresh U-turn after refusing to meet Covid-19 victims' families
BBC News
Coronavirus: Bereaved families call for meeting with Boris Johnson
BBC News
'It wasn't good enough for our loved ones'
The Guardian
‘Asleep at the wheel’: families of Covid-19 victims lament UK response
ITV News
Bereaved families of Covid-19 victims accuse Boris Johnson of ignoring them
The Guardian
Bereaved relatives call for immediate inquiry into Covid-19 crisis
BBC News
Coronavirus: 'Start public inquiry now to prevent more deaths'
The Guardian