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Cummings vs MacNamara: the backstage clash at the heart of the UK’s Covid response

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser and senior civil servant traded blows at the pandemic inquiry last week, describing horrifying levels of government chaos. The irony was how often their assessments agreed

The Guardian - UK

When Britain most needed a decent leader, we had a derelict at the helm

The Covid inquiry testimony is an eviscerating indictment of Boris Johnson and a stain on the reputation of his enablers

The Guardian - UK

Nadine Dorries claims secretive Tory cabal called ‘the movement’ brought down Boris Johnson

Extract from new book say former PM was told: ‘If you don’t go, I’m going to take you down. I’ll finish you off’

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‘Despicable’: Bereaved Covid families slam Johnson and Hancock over pandemic WhatsApp messages

Bereaved daughter and sister says her family members deserved so much more

The Independent UK

James O’Brien, LBC’s mid-morning mouthpiece, on the problem with Farage, right-wing media and being a ‘heterosexual bruiser’

The notoriously opinionated radio host speaks to Louis Chilton about meeting Matthew Perry, the BBC’s ‘mess’ of an impartiality system, and why his new book tackles the 10 people who ‘broke Britain’

The Independent UK

Dorries claims Tory cabal called the ‘movement’ brought down Johnson

Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove were key figures in group that controlled the Conservatives, says ex-culture secretary

The Guardian - UK

Defiant Boris Johnson denies claims he was indecisive over lockdown as Covid gripped Britain

Former PM also insists he gave ‘highest priority’ to human life after inquiry heard he believed virus was nature’s way of dealing with the elderly

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Boris Johnson says Covid ‘indecision’ was him debating lockdown impact

In written evidence to Covid inquiry ex-PM admits being torn over first lockdown due to economic harm

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson will struggle to reverse narrative of ‘chaotic’ Covid reign

Inquiry evidence stacks up against former PM in repeated references to him being out of control and indecisive

The Guardian - UK

The trolleying PM: a guide to the language of Boris Johnson’s No 10

Covid inquiry highlights foul-mouthed, macho culture in Downing Street as Britons died in their thousands

The Guardian - UK

During Covid, callous Tories knew this about old people: they’re very expensive

This government has done precious little to prepare for an ageing population, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Nadine Dorries claims No10 fixer had ex-girlfriend’s rabbit ‘chopped into four'

THE former MP and Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries has claimed a Downing Street fixer chopped up his ex-girlfriend’s pet rabbit and nailed it…

The National (Scotland)

Furious about the petty macho point-scoring of the Covid-era government? May I suggest this shouty Belgian feminist video

Helen MacNamara’s quietly devastating evidence to the Covid inquiry reminded me how desperately we need more women channelling their anger into politics, says Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

I feared scientific advisers were being used by the government – the Covid inquiry shows they were

I told Chris Whitty at the time that scientists were providing cover for weak leaders taking harmful decisions, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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Nadine Dorries claims Government trying to block her book on Johnson’s downfall

The former culture secretary has accused the Government of trying to block the November 9 release.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: BST, Becks, Big Ange, Boris – and my new book!

The clocks going back increases the sense of dread and despair – though Spurs have put me in dreamland for a while

Evening Standard

Nadine Dorries accuses Government of 'desperate' bid to block publication of her book

The former culture secretary has reportedly refused to hand over a transcript

The Guardian - UK

Macho posturing costs lives: another lesson from the Covid inquiry

Even Helen MacNamara, one of the most powerful women in Whitehall, was brushed aside when she raised concerns, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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The Guardian - UK

What we learned about Matt Hancock from the Covid inquiry

Former health secretary was seen as an overconfident ‘liar’ during the pandemic, according to former colleagues

The Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry turns to the professionals for a masterclass in time-wasting

Former NHS England boss Simon Stevens turns out to be just the warmup act for the main event, Christopher Wormald

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Covid-19 inquiry: a week that has probed deep

Editorial: The absence of national planning for the pandemic and Boris Johnson’s shameful leadership are in the spotlight

The Guardian - UK

We may be old, Boris Johnson, but don’t dare call us expendable

Letters: Michael Rosen, Jane M Card, Colin Montgomery, Prof Pete Dorey and two others respond to the news of Boris Johnson’s attitude to the spread of Covid

The Guardian - UK

This pantomime in Paddington is no way to right the wrongs of the Covid pandemic

The search for blame rather than truth at the inquiry is fuelling a theatre of humiliation, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

‘The blame game’: revelations from health officials at UK Covid inquiry

Simon Stevens and Chris Wormald recall inefficiency, lack of planning and a ‘horrible dilemma’ on life-or-death decisions

Evening Standard

OPINION - Older people in Britain die unnecessarily: NHS is shamefully ageist and so is the rest of our society

Two stories caught my eye this week. First, that the elderly are being left hanging about in A&E waiting rooms while younger people “with simpler needs” get seen more rapidly, within the four-hour target. “Our study demonstrates older people living with frailty may not be appropriately prioritised within the acute…

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