6/ We need a bit of honesty. The public finances, and thus the NHS, will continue to face severe financial pressures until politicians have courage to admit that Brexit is a disaster

5/ Nearly 10 years post-referendum, the NHS remains under strain, underfunded, understaffed, facing longer waits, with Brexit's economic bite continuing to undermine service performance.

4/ A new report used counterfactual models on 33 countries to isolate Brexit’s economic impact, showing declines in GDP and NHS funding, even after adjusting for COVID effects.
www.nber.org/system/files...

3/ The Office for Budget Responsibility warned that slower growth would wipe out EU savings → ~£15 billion/year less for public services, including health.

2/ Despite promises by Brexit supporters that leaving EU would unlock extra money by ending contributions, Treasury and OECD projected the UK economy would be 3–5% smaller compared to remaining in the EU, piercing that optimism.

4/ Third, no recognition (indeed policies that exacerbate) plight of universities, that can actually help 1st and 2nd problems

3/ Second, no real attempt to address vast regional inequality and abysmally low productivity, at least some due to very poor health

2/ First, no real acknowledgment that without addressing Brexit we’re doomed to follow a similar economic trajectory to Argentina post 1910

Yes, it’s about government decision making. She’s getting enough (entirely unjustified) criticism so no need to invite more by straying from remit. It’s an enormous task as it is (I reckon I’ve watched about 1/3 of hearings and read a fraction of evidence) so I’m hugely impressed by what she’s done

That’s not its remit. See

covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...

As we also wrote at the time

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

And here (plus quite a few others) and see also my evidence to module 7 of the Inquiry

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32766544/