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Nicholas Cecil

Boris Johnson’s No10 tried to 'blow up' British way of running Civil Service, ex-minister says of Covid chaos

Boris Johnson’s No10 tried to “blow up” the British way of running the Civil Service, a former health minister said on Tuesday of the chaos in Government during the pandemic.

Lord Bethell claimed there was a “power grab from the centre” and an attempt for “every decision” to be made in Downing Street by a small group of people hand-picked by the then Prime Minister and his top aide Dominic Cummings.

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