Covid Inquiry: Boris Johnson rejects claims No.10 was 'toxic'
Ex-PM says he had "no difficulty recruiting the best possible people" despite claims people were deterred by working environment
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Ex-PM says he had "no difficulty recruiting the best possible people" despite claims people were deterred by working environment
Boris Johnson has said he faced an “appalling balancing act” over lockdown as he defended comments questioning why stringent measures were…
Britain’s former prime minister is facing a two-day going-over by the country’s official pandemic probe. POLITICO is tracking the key moments.
Boris Johnson has said he faced an “appalling balancing act” over lockdown as he defended comments questioning why stringent measures were…
Boris Johnson dismissed the exasperated messages exchanged between senior officials Mark Sedwill and Simon Case, on his first day of giving evidence at Britain’s Covid inquiry. In July 2020 Simon Case, the then-head official in Downing Street and now the Cabinet Secretary, said “I’ve never seen a bunch of people less well-equipped to run a country”, in a message to Sir Mark, who was cabinet secretary at the time. Speaking on Wednesday (6 December), Mr Johnson said Whitehall mandarins would have said similar “pretty fruity” things about the Margaret Thatcher administration if their ...