i will end up rambling on, the let me give you the headline view. the first thing is to have a chief of staff in number ten who does the organisational, structural role. if you think about how precious every minute is of the prime minister s time, and we accept it is finite, how you organise that time authoritatively. ten times as many people want to see the prime minister or one that part of his or her time than is physically possible, and that is really important role. want that part of his or her under borisjohnson, i thought he was in there as a sort of eminence agrees, a wise pair of hands. in terms of dominic cummings, thatis hands. in terms of dominic cummings, that is not why he was there, whatever the title. eminence grise. he was there to drive forward delivery, and was certainly well disposed and well suited to this, trying amidst the daily hustle and bustle of events brought up by the media, whatever was the issue of the day, take a hard step back and try to
discounts the summer of 2020, restaurant discounts offered, some people suggesting that that has led to an increase suggesting that that has led to an increase in infections. rishi sunak was the increase in infections. rishi sunak was the key increase in infections. rishi sunak was the key architect of that. there will be was the key architect of that. there will be questions to mark sedwill ahout will be questions to mark sedwill about that. there has also been some suggestion about that. there has also been some suggestion that people around government were referring to the treasury government were referring to the treasury led by rishi sunak as the denth treasury led by rishi sunak as the death squad, the pro death squad because death squad, the pro death squad because they were pushing very hard to protect because they were pushing very hard to protect the economy, perhaps at the expense of health. perhaps those around the expense of health. perhaps tho
communications plan for coronavirus, thatis communications plan for coronavirus, that is what that reference was recording hancock and co. and also, as you know there is an e mail from, on 25th february, i was saying where are all of these red teams, where is this testing and what not that hancock promised us existed, where are the documents and we at number ten were starting to get a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the fact that the first wave of all the fact that the first wave of all the communications plans. you say the communications plans. you say the system the communications plans. you say the system didn t the communications plans. you say the system didn t push the communications plans. you say the system didn t push him - the communications plans. you say the system didn t push him to - the communications plans. you say| the system didn t push him to come back, didn t regard it as crisis, but, you were part o
designed to waste huge amounts of my time i will personally hand curve her and escort her from the building. had you got form, mr cummings, for. studio: apologies for some of the languages used. this is a live stream of the uk covid inquiry and we are seeing messages containing course language. language. we cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown. page 10 of 283282. we have to get helen out of here. he is trying to get spads fired. can we get her in monday for her chat to her moving. we need her out asap. building millions of lovely houses. studio: again apologies for the language being used in this live stream. we will see a way in which you speak of a professional scientist who gave his time, and considerable amounts of energy to sage. professor neil ferguson, a third of the way down, we should get someone to hammer ferguson. mr cummings. was that aggressive and foul mouthed an misogynistic approach the correct wray to manage fellow professionals? i approach the cor
Well the day is finally here and Sir Arbuthnot will shortly be making the arduous journey to Manchester for the Tory conference, once again upended by the RMT s devious schemes. Keep an eye out, there may be one or two additional diaries between now and the end of the Tory gathering.