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Matt Hancock said he has not seen Dominic Cummings’ “performance” in full, after the Prime Minister’s former aide told MPs he should have been sacked as Health Secretary. Mr Cummings said Mr Hancock should have been fired over coronavirus failings and “criminal, disgraceful behaviour” on the testing target. Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser also said Whitehall’s top official recommended to the Prime Minister that Mr Hancock should be sacked. As he arrived at his north London home on We...

Matt Hancock said he has not seen Dominic Cummings’ “performance” in full, after the Prime Minister’s former aide told MPs he should have been sacked as Health Secretary. Mr Cummings said Mr Hancock should have been fired over coronavirus failings and “criminal, disgraceful behaviour” on the testing target. Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser also said Whitehall’s top official recommended to the Prime Minister that Mr Hancock should be sacked. As he arrived at his north London home on We...

He said the prime minister himself had repeatedly played down the seriousness of the disease, calling it a “scare story” and comparing it to swine flu. Cummings even claimed officials had deliberately kept Johnson out of emergency Cobra meetings. “Certainly, the view of various officials inside No 10 was if we have the PM chair Cobra meetings, and he just tells everyone, ‘Don’t worry about it, I’m going to get [England’s chief medical officer] Chris Whitty to ...

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

Dominic Cummings was scathing about the pandemic performance of his former boss Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock BORIS Johnson is “not a fit and proper person” to steer the UK through the pandemic, MPs have heard. The claim was made by the Prime Minister’s former chief aide Dominic Cummings in a dramatic hearing of a joint committee set up to examine the Conservative Government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. Asked if he regarded Johnson as “a fit and proper...

The Health Secretary was speaking as he arrived home on Wednesday evening.

Herd immunity WAS a policy until Friday 13 March when it was abandoned, he said It was a "catastrophic mistake" not to make data public because there wasnt scrutiny of the scientists decisions He accused ministers of acting too slowly as they werent prepared and had no plans Groupthink led to delays in lockdown, but he said he "bitterly regrets" not pushing it from the first week of March In bombshell evidence to the joint health and science committee, the PMs former top aide accused Boris of d...

Johnson’s former aide gives his version of what decisions were taken and by whom in spring 2020

Cummings: Key evidence from ex-aides bombshell testimony BORIS Johnson is not a “fit and proper person” to lead the country through the coronavirus crisis, according to his former closest adviser. Dominic Cummings, speaking to a committee of MPs today, has made a series of bombshell claims regarding Mr Johnson’s handling of the pandemic, as well as criticism of Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Prime Minister’s fiancée Carrie Symonds, the Cabinet Office and former head of the UK C...

Social media users quick to craft memes as Cummings and Hancock trend online Former PM aide gave evidence before committee of MPs on Covid-19 response  He accused government of falling disastrously short on response to pandemic  Said PM dismissed Covid-19 as a scare story like Swine Flu as late as February And he gave brutal assessment of Health Sec, saying he should have been fired