Who is Hugo Keith KC? Meet the star lawyer keeping order in the Covid inquiry court

He dismantled Mohamed Al-Fayed’s crazed conspiracy theory about Prince Philip ordering a hit job on Princess Diana, saved Princess Anne’s wayward dog from being put down after it bit two children, and is currently keeping a close eye on Dominic Cummings’s Ps and Qs in the Covid inquiry court. Harry Mount goes in search of the real Hugo Keith KC

Hugo Keith KC at the Covid inquiry (Covid 19 Inquiry)

What a contrast the two figures made at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

There was Dominic Cummings in a too-big, wrinkled shirt. The inquiry proceeded to hear the effing and blinding in his WhatsApp messages.

Cummings said the cabinet were “useless f***pigs”. He called ministers “c***s” and “morons”. When accused of being a misogynist for calling a woman a c***, his defence was that he was much ruder about men.