Dominic Cummings reveals how the wheels came off inside Number 10: Extraordinary timeline of chaos as coronavirus spread across Britain. before civil servant screamed we re f and aides drew up plan B on a whiteboard asking who do we not save?
Cummings, one of Boris Johnson s top advisers in 2020, is lifting the lid on Downing St in a meeting with MPs
He said that in March 2020 a senior civil servant told the two of them we are absolutely f
Mr Cummings revealed a whiteboard showing fears the original Covid plan would be even more disastrous
He told the Commons Health Select Committee: We ve set out the conditions we will look at for the relaxation of the restrictions, which are: that there isn t another major new variant which causes difficulties of the disease, that the vaccination programme is working, and the number of hospitalisations and deaths are coming down. I don t have a fixed number of any one of those four in my head and we don t have any fixed thresholds on it, but you can see the direction of travel.
England was plunged into its third lockdown of the pandemic on Wednesday after a surge in cases across the country caused by a new distinction of COVID-19.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer calls for national lockdown in next 24 hours
Keir Starmer said the virus is clearly out of control adding nationwide restrictions are required
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