Helen MacNamara, who was Britain's most senior female civil servant, is giving evidence after it was revealed Dominic Cummings wanted to 'handcuff' her and drag her out of No10
Helen MacNamara has told how Boris Johnson’s Government treated scientific advice like “the word of God” at the start of the pandemic.
The mother-of-four was in charge of making sure the government upheld the highest standards of behaviour while the country was reeling from the privations of the pandemic in June 2020.
The Covid Inquiry has been taking evidence from Helen MacNamara, Deputy Cabinet Secretary from 2020 to 2021. During Dominic Cummings’s cross-examination yesterday it was revealed that he had wanted to ‘handcuff her [MacNamara] and escort’ her out of No. 10. Yet much of her evidence this morning corroborates his account (or rather criticism) of Whitehall
STEPHEN GLOVER: The Covid inquiry is degenerating into a blame game, with various factions accusing one another in increasingly shrill terms of failing in their duty.