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Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser told the Covid-19 Inquiry he ‘begged’ the then-prime minister not to effectively sack the top civil servant.

Messages sent between Dominic Cummings, Lee Cain and Simon Case lay bare the chaos behind Downing Street’s response to Covid

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

Drug-fuelled benders, karaoke sets and whistleblowers: we separate fact from fiction

After 30 years of helping homeless people and troubled families, the can-do peer says she’s had her fill of this Tory administration

MPs said some of his denials and explanations for lockdown bashes were 'so disingenuous' that they were clearly deliberate attempts to mislead Parliament and the Committee in its inquiries

It comes amid mounting alarm over the threat from AI technology after Rishi Sunak's top tech adviser warned world leaders had just two years to get a grip on the rapidly developing field

Ex head of civil service says UK needs to invest in capabilities

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

Instant removal of Treasury’s permanent secretary potentially worsened mini-budget crisis, parliamentary committee hears

Tory MP Julian Lewis and standards committee chair Chris Bryant are among those with gongs