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Rishi Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out ‘blindsided’ top officials, Covid inquiry told

Former head of the Cabinet Office Covid-19 taskforce Simon Ridley became the latest top official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe this week

Evening Standard

Eat Out to Help Out ‘blindsided’ top officials, Covid inquiry is told

Former head of the Cabinet Office Covid-19 taskforce Simon Ridley became the latest top official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe this week.

The Independent UK

Health officials was ‘not concerned’ about Covid patients in care homes months into pandemic, inquiry hears

Simon Ridley also claimed he was “blindsided” by Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme

The Independent UK

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‘Profusion of officialdom’ in early days of pandemic, inquiry hears

Simon Ridley became the latest senior official to appear before Lady Hallett’s probe.

The Independent 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

Johnson thought Hancock would be ‘sacrifice for the inquiry’ – Cummings

Boris Johnson may have wanted to keep Matt Hancock as Health Secretary as a ‘sacrifice’ for the Covid-19 inquiry, Dominic Cummings has claimed.

The Independent UK

Dominic Cummings denies misogyny claims despite obscene sexist rant at UK’s most powerful female mandarin

The offensive messages shed new light on a culture of sexism at the heart of Boris Johnson’s Covid government

The Independent UK

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Who is Hugo Keith? Chambers lawyer leading covid inquiry

Superstar lawyer is man asking Dominic Cummings questions

Evening Standard

Hancock ‘killed people’ and ‘lied’ in pandemic, Cummings told PM

The former health secretary was criticised by the former top Downing Street adviser during a lengthy appearance before Lady Hallett’s probe.

The Independent UK

Broadcasters offer warnings as Covid-19 Inquiry features string of expletives

The evidence of Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings led to a large amount of colourful language.

The Independent UK

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

Covid Inquiry has been hearing of the chaos in Government during the Covid pandemic

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson ‘can't lead’ and making Government ‘impossible’, top civil servant Simon Case said during Covid

The UK’s top civil servant vented that Boris Johnson ‘cannot lead’ amid pandemic-era frustration with the Prime Minister’s leadership

Evening Standard

It’s all a bit of a purple haze as ‘Party Marty’ takes the witness stand

Boris Johnson’s former PPS shows if you can remember what happened in No 10 during lockdown you probably weren’t there

The Guardian - UK

Johnson ‘cannot lead’ and making Government ‘impossible’ – Case

The UK’s top civil servant vented that Boris Johnson ‘cannot lead’ amid pandemic-era frustration with the Prime Minister’s leadership.

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Half-term communications gap under scrutiny as inquiry hears of Covid ‘failings’

There was a 10-day period in February in which no notes on coronavirus were sent to Boris Johnson and no emergency Cobra meetings held.

The National (Scotland)

'Weak and indecisive' Boris Johnson blasted by furious aides in explosive messages

BORIS Johnson was described as a “weak and indecisive” prime minister by furious aides during the pandemic, explosive WhatsApp messages have…

The Independent UK

Gap in Covid communications to Johnson coincided with half-term, inquiry hears

A former top aide also faced questions about why he had turned on the ‘disappearing message function’ on a high-level WhatsApp group in April 2021.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson met with Russian mogul Lord Lebedev at height of Covid pandemic

BORIS Johnson held a private meeting with Russian media mogul Lord Evgeny Lebedev just days before the UK went into lockdown.

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The Independent UK

Ex-No10 chief admits he ‘disappeared’ messages in PM’s WhatsApps group chat

Boris Johnson’s former aide ‘Party Marty’ sorry for ‘bring your own booze’ event – and says he ‘cannot recall’ why he set messages to delete weeks after the Covid inquiry announced

The Guardian - UK

‘People will die anyway’: Pressure on Boris Johnson over Covid messages

Inquiry told of comments made by former prime minister during meeting discussing pandemic response

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson ‘mad’ if he did not realise Covid WhatsApps would become public, Simon Case said

The comments were made in WhatsApp messages between Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and then-principal private secretary Martin Reynolds

The Independent UK

Neil Ferguson denies stepping over the line when advising Government in pandemic

The Covid inquiry is hearing from scientists who advised the Government throughout 2020 and 2021.

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 Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson was ‘flip-flopping’ on decisions during Covid, wrote Vallance

Chief scientific adviser in 2020 found the ex-PM ‘completely inconsistent’ in his evidence to the Covid inquiry

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’

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