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LONDON: The government “disastrously” failed the public by mishandling the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former top adviser and Brexit architect...
Former adviser’s aim was clearly to concede wrongdoing while suggesting he was the unwitting victim of an ‘overall system failure’.
‘Like a scene from Independence Day’: Dominic Cummings' timeline of the ‘crucial week’ in the government’s coronavirus response Dominic Cummings has given a blow-by-blow account of the Downing Street operation in the “crucial week” of Covid-19 decision making pre-lockdown Photo: Alamy 27 May 2021 This timeline sets out the key moments, according to the PM's former senior adviser, where Boris Johnson's team reversed on herd immunity and the then-cabinet secretary advocated for chicken-pox style parties. Monday 9 March: Herd immunity hits the headlines Discussions ramp up over th...
Dominic Cummings has unveiled whiteboard charts that he says were brought in to convince Boris Johnson to lock Britain down last year - a move which he compared to a scene from the film Independence Day. The former aide to the Prime Minister uploaded an image on Twitter which he says was taken in Boris Johnson's study on March 14, 2020, before Britain's first lockdown. It shows a series of graphs drawn on a whiteboard, outlining potential outcomes that could happen depending on how the Government approached the crisis. One graph, labelled 'No mitigation', shows a blue bell curve, se...
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