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Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock 'should have been fired' on 15 or 20 occasions during the pandemic - including for lying in cabinet and to the public, Boris Johnson's former adviser Dominic Cummings has told MPs.

The Health Secretary was arriving at his north London home when he was asked to respond to the former No10 chief aides claims he was a serial liar who should have been sacked.

He was like a shopping trolley smashing from one side of the aisle to the other: Cummings says hit and hope PM rejected pleas from Whitty and Vallance for a second circuit breaker lockdown in September and blamed them for last Marchs restrictions Dominic Cummings has given a long-awaited evidence session before committee of MPs on coronavirus He said government fell disastrously short on response to pandemic and apologised for his role in failure Ex-aide said tens of thousands of people died wh...

In parliamentary testimony, the former top aide accused the British prime minister of incompetence that caused tens of thousands of extra Covid deaths.

The former Downing Street aide was critical of his former boss Boris Johnson and revealed the cause of the breakdown in their relationship.

Dominic Cummings claimed his former boss Boris Johnson said he would rather see ‘bodies pile high’ than order a third lockdown.

Cummings: Chicken pox parties suggested by top civil servant as herd immunity strategy THE HEAD of the UK Civil Service suggested advising the public to hold chicken pox parties to spread coronavirus across the country, a committee of MPs has heard.  Dominic Cummings, the Prime Ministers former senior aide, made the claim during an evidence session of the Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee this morning.  He claimed that Mark Sedwill, former head of th...

Cummings: Matt Hancock should have been fired for lying to everybody Boris Johnsons former top aide is providing explosive testimony on the governments handling of the Covid-19 pandemic Health Secretary Matt Hancock (Image: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor) Get our daily Echo newsletter for the biggest stories and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe for free When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your i...

Boris Johnson was more interested in a story about his dog than listening to warnings over unfolding Covid crisis, his former aide has claimed. BORIS Johnson was more agitated by a newspaper article about his dog than warnings about the pending Covid disaster, the prospect of hundreds of thousands of deaths and the need to go into lockdown, his former chief aide has told MPs. Dominic Cummings said he had "mounting panic" about the response to coronavirus in early March last year and warned...

Dominic Cummings said Health Secretary Matt Hancock should have been fired for repeated failures and lies.