The clash between Lord Sedwill and Dominic Cummings came in mid-March 2020.
Dominic Cummings was warned that Number 10 was not running a “dictatorship”, in a clash with the country’s most senior civil servant over the handling of pandemic preparation.
Cabinet Secretary Lord Sedwill made the intervention as Boris Johnson’s then-top adviser suggested he would chair a key meeting in mid-March 2020 ahead of a later meeting with the Prime Minister. In an email shared with the Covid inquiry, dated March 11, Mr Cummings asked for a meeting “chaired by me or Lee , so we are in position to answer Qs properly for PM at 9”.Lord Sedwill, who was head of the civil service until September 2020, responded: “We are not running a dictatorship here and the PM is not taking nationally significant decisions with a bunch of No10 SpAds and no ministers, no operational experts and no scientists.
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