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The Latest Breaking News from Dominic Cummings

Cummings and other senior No 10 officials due at Covid inquiry next week

The inquiry’s module two hearings are considering core UK decision-making and political governance.

The Independent UK

PM confirms top civil servant Simon Case taking time off for 'medical matter'

PM Rishi Sunak wishes him a 'speedy recovery'

Evening Standard

Dominic Cummings gloats about HS2 cancellation and settles old scores

Boris Johnson's former adviser has also drawn up a list of enemies

Evening Standard

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Wednesday briefing: What you’ve missed at the Covid inquiry

In today’s newsletter: From allegedly lost WhatsApp messages to Sir Patrick Vallance’s frank lockdown diary, revelations only get more intriguing

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cummings to give evidence to Covid inquiry at end of October

Mr Cummings used his latest Substack post to reveal he had been going through his statement with inquiry lawyers

Evening Standard

Secret Covid Whatsapps reveal who cabinet secretary really thought was in charge – Carrie Johnson

Nadine Dorries said the messages show a group of ‘nasty misogynist bullies’ trying to ‘get to Boris through his wife’

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry WhatsApp message said ‘the real person in charge is Carrie’

The hearing in central London is part of module two, which focuses on core UK decision-making and political governance.

The Independent UK

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Carrie Johnson was 'real person in charge' during Covid, top civil servant said

BORIS Johnson’s wife Carrie was the “real person in charge” in Downing Street during the Covid pandemic, according to the UK’s most senior…

The National (Scotland)

Revealed: Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’s secret Covid WhatsApp messages

In a WhatsApp message to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings described the Cabinet Office as ‘terrifyingly s***’

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson did not want meetings with Nicola Sturgeon during Covid

BORIS Johnson has said he thought it was "wrong" for him to hold regular meetings with Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh First Minister during…

The National (Scotland)

Conservative Party conference explained: John Rentoul answers your questions

Our chief political correspondent John Rentoul answers your questions on HS2, the smoking ban and what’s next for the Conservatives following Rishi Sunak’s first keynote speech as party leader

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s decision-making over Covid was ‘bipolar’, Sir Patrick Vallance warned

The former PM was accused of failing to lead the country in the early days of the pandemic, the UK Covid Inquiry was told

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson ‘scrawled in capitals that long Covid was ‘b*****ks’, Covid Inquiry hears

Long Covid groups claim the former prime minister initially ‘denied the truth of the suffering’

The Independent UK

Covid-19 bereaved ‘haven’t had access to Boris Johnson’s phone messages’

Material provided to the public inquiry into the Covid crisis has not been made available to bereaved families, say lawyers

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Covid-19 bereaved families ‘haven’t had access to Johnson’s phone messages’

It comes as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is set to begin its second module.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak and Johnson Covid-19 inquiry appearances delayed ‘to avoid party conference season’

Questions for current and ex-PM over their handling of the pandemic put off

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson made to ‘look like a chump’ as ex-aide shuns Tories in Lords

Dan Rosenfield decides to sit as independent after being nominated by former PM in resignation honours list

The Independent UK

Former Boris Johnson aide Dominic Cummings ‘plots new party to end rotten Tory horror show’

Dominic Cummings comments described as ‘yet more mad ramblings from a narcissistic egomaniac’

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The Independent UK

Government’s ‘small boats week’ ends in humiliation as barge evacuated over legionnaires’ disease fears

Migrants forced to disembark from ‘Bibby Stockholm’ just days after arriving on board

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock seeks to humiliate himself in public again

After an astonishing rise, the fall of Matt Hancock from pandemic Health Secretary to floundering reality TV entrant somehow still fails to win sympathy from the British public. Funny that, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock: The energetic health secretary who was brought down by his own lockdown rules

Profile: The rising star of managerial Conservatism thought he had done a good job during the pandemic, writes John Rentoul

Evening Standard

Which MPs have broken Covid rules? Boris Johnson found to have committed contempt

Alongside Mr Johnson, a number of MPs have been found to have broken lockdown rules

Daily Record

Police Scotland appoints Jo Farrell as new Chief Constable amid SNP finances investigation

Farrell was criticised in 2020 when she was in charge of Durham Police for failing to question Dominic Cummings after his lockdown trip to Barnard Castle.

The Independent UK

Timeline of lockdown gatherings as Boris Johnson faces new claim he broke Covid rules

Revelations about Boris Johnson’s time in Downing Street continue to emerge

The Guardian - UK

Didn’t You Use to Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 review – blasts from the sidelines

The views of the former Labour minister make for jarring moments in this latest volume of his diaries

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