Page 29 - Mark Sedwill News Today

NADINE DORRIES: Cummings, Gove and Lee Cain [Boriss director of communications] were totally aligned on a hard lockdown; not one person backed the Prime Minister.

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Two of Westminsters best-connected journalists, Sky News Sam Coates and Politicos Jack Blanchard, guide us through their predictions of how British politics will play out over the next seven days.

Similar discussions would have taken place in the United States, Germany, France and in government circles around the world. In every country measures to contain the pandemic were opposed by a ruling class that priorities profits over lives.

This government has done precious little to prepare for an ageing population, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Chris Wormald rejects criticisms DHSC was structurally “chaotic”, “dysfunctional” and “ungovernable”

In statement to Covid Inquiry, former PM says health service had not addressed problem of delayed hospital discharges

Former NHS England boss Simon Stevens turns out to be just the warmup act for the main event, Christopher Wormald

Messages between Lord Sedwill and Sir Christopher Wormald were shown to the COVID inquiry. Sir Christopher is still the most senior civil servant at the Department for Health and Social Care.

Chris Mason looks ahead to former top civil servant Helen McNamara's testimony at the Covid inquiry.