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Appearing before a COVID-19 inquiry, Johnson defends his government’s response to 2020 outbreak, saying he did the best he could at the time

The bombshell WhatsApp messages between former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings were show to the Covid Inquiry and relate to the first lockdown

Boris Johnson was shown a number of minutes, notes and WhatsApp messages from his time as prime minister while giving evidence to the COVID inquiry.

Months in and years to go, it’s still far from clear what the point of this inquiry is. Fortunately today they had called in that famously plain-speaking Boris Johnson to de-muddy the waters.

Former prime minister denies he made major mistakes and defends top team during full day of questioning

Ex-PM says he had "no difficulty recruiting the best possible people" despite claims people were deterred by working environment

Boris Johnson has said he faced an “appalling balancing act” over lockdown as he defended comments questioning why stringent measures were…

Britain’s former prime minister is facing a two-day going-over by the country’s official pandemic probe. POLITICO is tracking the key moments.

Boris Johnson has said he faced an “appalling balancing act” over lockdown as he defended comments questioning why stringent measures were…

Boris Johnson dismissed the exasperated messages exchanged between senior officials Mark Sedwill and Simon Case, on his first day of giving evidence at Britain’s Covid inquiry. In July 2020 Simon Case, the then-head official in Downing Street and now the Cabinet Secretary, said “I’ve never seen a bunch of people less well-equipped to run a country”, in a message to Sir Mark, who was cabinet secretary at the time. Speaking on Wednesday (6 December), Mr Johnson said Whitehall mandarins wou...