Editorial: Evidence from Dominic Cummings and other key figures points to a deadly combination of chaos and recklessness
Tue 31 Oct 2023 20.08 CETven given all that is already known about poor decision-making, avoidable deaths, lockdown-breaking parties and atrocious procurement, the evidence being related to the Covid inquiry has the power to shock. Though Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are not due to testify for a few more weeks, the reflections ofand other key figures at No 10 shine an unforgiving spotlight on the heart of government.
Questions to Mr Cummings from Hugo Keith KC rightly probed the sequence of events leading up to the about-turn in mid-March 2020, when it was decided that a policy of mitigation had been a mistake and a lockdown began to be envisaged. Mr Cummings’ disdain for Whitehall is well known, so his criticisms of “Potemkin” meetings, conducted for show and little else, were unsurprising. So were his views on “pop-ins” to the prime minister’s office by civil servants eager to influence him.
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