Dominic Cummings will testify, plus senior aides and civil servants known to the public because of illicit parties
After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony, evidence that could shine a deeply unforgiving light on the inner workings of Boris Johnson’s government., Johnson’s former chief adviser, and Lee Cain, his ex-communications chief, plus a string of other senior aides and top civil servants of the time – several of whom first became known to the public because of illicit Covid parties.
One such twist came in the last evidence session, on 19 October, when a string of September 2020 WhatsApp messages between Dame Angela McLean, now the government’s chief scientific adviser, and leading epidemiologist John Edmunds showedThis uncertainty will become all the greater because of the characters of some of those involved, not least Cummings, who has shown complete willingness to trash the reputation of Johnson, whom he calls “the shopping trolley” for his supposed abruptthat some of...
Rather than rushing into lockdowns, Cain is expected to argue, the Johnson government’s main mistake had been to delay them too long, a worry raised in recent hearings by eminent scientists including Edmunds
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