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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

A look inside Boris Johnson’s ‘feral’ No 10: this week at the Covid inquiry

From left: Matt Hancock, Mark Sedwill, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak at a cabinet meeting in February 2020
From left: Matt Hancock, Mark Sedwill, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak at a cabinet meeting in February 2020. Photograph: Matt Dunham/PA

The Covid inquiry at times feels like watching a trial in which the prosecution and defence are conducted simultaneously – while it is theoretically split into area-specific modules, the subject matter jumps around, with sometimes dramatic evidence presented at unexpected times. This week’s hearings have been no exception. These are the main things we learned.

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