Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry concluded on Thursday.⁣ ⁣ Britain recorded more than 230,000 deaths from Covid, a similar death rate to the United States and Italy but higher than elsewhere in western Europe, and it is still recovering from the economic consequences.⁣ ⁣ An inquiry, which Johnson ordered in May 2021, delivered a blistering assessment of his government's response to Covid, criticising his indecisive leadership, lambasting his Downing Street office for breaking its own rules and castigating his top adviser Dominic Cummings.⁣ ⁣ "There was a toxic and chaotic culture at the centre of the UK government during the pandemic," the inquiry chair, former judge Heather Hallett, said in her report.⁣ ⁣ Hallett said if earlier action had been taken to prevent the spread of the virus, lockdown...