Peter Williams: Royal Commission always destined to come up short

Confidence we'd get a hard hitting report was low

There were numerous warning signs Phase 2 of the Royal Commission into the Covid Response would produce a disappointing outcome.

The initial terms of reference specifically excluded an adversarial approach where evidence and submissions could and would be challenged.

Peter Williams: What the Royal Commission has been told

Will Ardern and Bloomfield be summonsed?

So far there’ve been no public hearings for Phase 2 of the Royal Commission into Covid-19 Lessons Learned, although some are due in the next couple of months.

But that hasn’t prevented submitters from telling us what they told the commissioners. This is information we should bear in mind when the Royal Commission reports in February next year.