Kabooooom! Oh yes, we expected fireworks. What we didn t anticipate was a full-blown mushroom cloud.
Dominic Cummings evidence to MPs yesterday was shock and awe. A highly-enriched, weapons-grade display of exploding phosphorescence and toxic fall-out which rained down over Westminster for seven and a half extraordinary hours.
Never before in select committee history has such a senior Government crony gone so spectacularly rogue.
Over the course of this marathon session of the science and health committees, the Prime Minister s erstwhile eminence grise torched Boris, bazooka-ed Carrie, ridiculed former cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill and belittled those clever-clogs Sage boffins.
Kabooooom! Oh yes, we expected fireworks. What we didn t anticipate was a full-blown mushroom cloud
We re absolutely f - Dominic Cummings gives damning account of the Government covid-19 plan
Dominic Cummings said when he realised the scale of the crisis it was like a scene from the movie Independence Day
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Dominic Cummings has given hugely damaging evidence to a joint inquiry of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology Committees. The former chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that people died unnecessarily because of Government failings the Mirror reports. During the session Cummings gave a stark description of the day he realised the true scale of the coronavirus crisis.
Month-by-month: Dominic Cummings sets out his version of the truth about pandemic planning
Boris Johnson s former chief adviser dissects the key dates of No 10 s early response to the coronavirus crisis
26 May 2021 • 4:55pm
Dominic Cummings has accused the Government of failing to operate on a war footing in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and of delaying the decision to implement strict lockdown restrictions.
Giving testimony about the Government s response to the pandemic to the Commons committee, the former Downing Street chief adviser detailed a number of perceived failures of No 10 in the early weeks of the crisis.
From the Government s lack of data about the early spread of the virus, to its lack of a plan for shielding, economic support and testing, Mr Cummings did not hold back.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:02 UTC
Carrie on plotting: Boris Johnson s fiancée Carrie Symonds tried to damage career of top woman civil servant who refused to sign off No 10 flat refurb and made crude sexual insult about another woman tipped to become his Cabinet SecretaryBoris Johnson s fiancee Carrie Symonds tried to damage the careers of Britain s top two female civil servants by manoeuvring against them and making offensive remarks.
Miss Symonds urged the Prime Minister to sack a female Whitehall official who refused to sign off a large taxpayers bill for her refurbishment of the
flat, including expensive wallpaper.
And she made a crude remark about another mandarin tipped to be the first female head of the Civil Service - but who lost out when Mr Johnson picked a less experienced male rival.
Carrie on plotting: Boris Johnson s fiancée Carrie Symonds tried to damage career of top woman civil servant who refused to sign off No 10 flat refurb and made crude sexual insult about another woman tipped to become his Cabinet Secretary
Carrie Symonds tried to sack a Whitehall official who refused to sign off a bill
Also made a crude remark about mandarin tipped to become first female head of the Civil Service
Revelations come afteran inquiry was called into her perceived power in No10