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31.10.2023 / 08:19

Cummings to face questions at UK Covid-19 inquiry

Dominic Cummings, the former chief adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who fell foul of lockdown rules, will face questions at the Covid-19 inquiry.

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30.11.2023 / 19:21

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Matt Hancock tells Covid inquiry Dominic Cummings created 'culture of fear' in No 10

Former health secretary Matt Hancock defended his record as he became the latest high-profile figure to give evidence to the official Covid-19 inquiry on Thursday. Among the revelations, the ex Cabinet minister accused No 10 aide Dominic Cummings of creating a “culture of fear” in government that undermined the pandemic response.

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29.11.2023 / 15:01

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Rishi Sunak denies saying it was 'OK' to let people die of coronavirus

Rishi Sunak has refuted claims that he said it was "OK" to let people die from coronavirus. The allegations surfaced from a diary entry by Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK Government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, which was shared with the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

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27.11.2023 / 08:37

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Andy Burnham to give evidence at Covid inquiry in London today

Andy Burnham is set to give evidence at the Covid inquiry in London today (November 27). The Greater Manchester mayor is expected to appear at the public hearing where he will have a chance to share his views on how the government handled the Covid pandemic.

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Covid inquiry told Johnson and Sunak 'happy to let people die'

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wanted to let Covid "rip" despite the fact people would die, while the then chancellor Rishi Sunak also thought that was "okay", a UK public inquiry has heard.

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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were happy to let people die from covid, inquiry hears

Boris Johnson wanted to let Covid “rip” despite the fact people would die, while Rishi Sunak also thought that was “okay”, the public inquiry has heard.

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04.11.2023 / 06:25

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The trolley, 'useless f***pigs', and a hairdryer up the nose: What we learnt from this week's Covid Inquiry

A number of key Downing Street figures from the early days of the pandemic have been giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry this week.

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Johnson 'asked scientists if special hairdryer could kill Covid' - Cummings

Boris Johnson asked top UK scientists Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance if Covid-19 could be destroyed by blowing a "special hairdryer" up noses, Dominic Cummings has claimed.

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01.11.2023 / 15:37

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Boris Johnson asked scientists if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose

Boris Johnson asked scientists if people could kill Covid by blowing a hairdryer up their nose - after he watched a YouTube video suggesting this, the Covid Inquiry has heard.

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01.11.2023 / 12:37

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The 16 Covid Inquiry bombshells from shocking day of WhatsApp message revelations

Boris Johnson thought Covid was just "nature's way of dealing with old people", revealed in a shocking day of revelations at the Covid Inquiry.

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Matt Hancock wanted to ‘frighten the pants off’ public about Covid strain, leaked messages show

Matt Hancock told aides he wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” about the Kent variant of Covid to ensure compliance with lockdown rules, leaked messages have revealed. The latest set of WhatsApp exchanges show the then-health secretary and others discussing how to use an announcement about the variant to scare the public into changing their behaviour. The messages, among 100,000 passed to the Telegraph by journalist Isabel Oakeshott, show cabinet secretary Simon Case suggested in January 2021 that the “fear” factor would be “vital”.

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Steven Bartlett defends Matt Hancock podcast as former health secretary addresses pandemic, No 10 parties and Dominic Cummings

his interview with Matt Hancock, insisting he’ll decide who does and does not appear on his podcast Diary Of A CEO.Today the anticipated interview with Hancock landed, which Bartlett previously said became ‘heated’ in parts as the former Health Secretary was grilled on his exit from the cabinet after being accused of breaking his own social distancing rules amid the pandemic in 2022.The MP stepped down from the front bench in June last year after leaked CCTV showed the then-married Hancock embracing and kissing advisor Gina Coledangelo, who was also married, in his office.Amid criticism of Hancock’s appearance on the podcast, in part owing to the fact he’s not a CEO, Bartlett today insisted it’s up to the audience whether they listen or not and that most of his guests aren’t CEOs, despite the podcast’s title.At the time the episode was teased, some had asked what Hancock was the CEO of, while others questioned why he was being given such a platform in which to attempt ‘reputation rehabilitation’.Flagging the episode, Bartlett began on Monday: ‘This is the first long-form interview @MattHancock has given since resigning as Health Secretary.

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20.07.2021 / 11:35

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Boris Johnson 'warned he could kill the Queen' as Dominic Cummings claims PM mocked Covid impact on over 80s

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Cummings alleges Johnson was reluctant to heighten restrictions

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he no longer believed "all this NHS overwhelmed stuff" as he resisted imposing England's second coronavirus lockdown, leaked messages suggest.

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Boris Johnson accused of 'corrupt campaigning' by SNP after covid funds used for research into Scots attitudes to Union

Michael Gove to cover public attitude to Brexit, rebuilding after the covid crisis and “attitudes to the UK Union”.The contract is being challenged in court because Public First is run by husband and wife policy team, James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, both of whom previously worked with Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings.Blackford said: “In the middle of a pandemic Tory Ministers secretly directed funds from an emergency Covid contract to carry out polling on the Union.”He asked Johnson to confirm the court report but the Prime Minister batted back he was not aware of the contract.Blackford leapt in: “The Prime Minister has just demonstrated that he doesn’t have clue.

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Hancock denies lying as he defends UK pandemic response

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he was aware at the start of the pandemic that 820,000 people could die from Covid-19 but that ordering an earlier lockdown would have meant going against scientific advice.

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Alarm bells are ringing ahead of final UK unlocking

Britain's plan to move to the final phase of unlocking society is on a knife edge.

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27.05.2021 / 20:49

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Bolton MP asks if Boris Johnson will be investigated for 'alleged corporate manslaughter' over pandemic deaths

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Kate Garraway slams Government's Covid response - 'they didn't care enough'

Kate Garraway has shared her feelings about Dominic Cummings' evidence on how the Government handled the coronavirus pandemic and the impact it had on her family, saying those in charge "didn't care enough".The Good Morning Britain presenter opened up on her reaction to the former adviser's comments about Boris Johnson and key ministers' attitudes to the unfolding crisis, talking about how it made her feel as her family are still dealing with the effects of their decisions. Kate's husband Derek Draper recently returned home after a year in hospital being treated for coronavirus and still needs round-the-clock care.

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Ian Blackford defends Nicola Sturgeon after Dominic Cummings accused her of undermining four-nation covid approach

seven hours of evidence to the science and technology, and health and social care committees yesterday Boris Johnson's former special adviser pointed the finger at the First Minister for "babbling" about discussions at COBRA meetings. Cummings said that the meetings involving the devolved UK leaders in the COBRA national security meetings became a pretence because Sturgeon was beating Downing Street to the cameras with the decisions immediately afterwards.

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Covid Scotland Live as it’s revealed one in 10 care home residents died in first year of pandemic

shock news that one in every 10 care home residents died of Covid in the first year of the pandemic. Care Inspectorate figures showed 3774 lost their lives to the virus up to March 31, 2021.

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Kate Garraway says 'plans should have been in place' for Covid amid Derek health battle

Kate Garraway has reflected back on her and husband Derek Draper's heartbreaking experience with coronavirus over the last year.The 54-year-old presenter returned to our screens on Thursday to discuss the latest news headlines on Good Morning Britain.Kate and her co-stars Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard discussed the allegations made by the Prime Minister's former chief special advisor Dominic Cummings, who spent seven hours giving evidence to parliamentary committees about the government's response to the pandemic on Wednesday.Mr Cummings was highly critical about policies and individuals - including the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself.Discussing the news on Thursday's edition of GMB, Kate explained:

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Ex-top aide: ‘It’s crackers’ Boris Johnson became British PM

Dominic Cummings, the former chief adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is apologizing for the government’s pandemic response, which he says fell “disastrously short” of what the public should expect, causing thousands of unnecessary deaths.

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Boris Johnson considered being injected with COVID-19 on live TV: ex-adviser

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was disastrously slow to impose a lockdown in 2020 because he thought COVID-19 was a scare story and even considered getting injected with coronavirus on live television to show it was benign, his former chief adviser said.Johnson subsequently caught COVID-19 early in the pandemic and was so ill that he was moved to intensive care at a London hospital where he received liters of oxygen.

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Ex-advisor to Boris Johnson gives scathing criticism of UK government’s COVID-19 response

In a blistering attack on the Johnson administration, Dominic Cummings, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former top aide, told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that Johnson would have been willing to have himself injected with the novel coronavirus, so skeptical was he that COVID-19 posed a threat.

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26.05.2021 / 20:53

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Twelve key points from Dominic Cummings' evidence to select committee on Covid response

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26.05.2021 / 20:11

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Matt Hancock 'absolutely rejects' claims made by Dominic Cummings after he said Health Secretary should have been sacked

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Dominic Cummings says government’s response to COVID “was like that Spider-Man meme”

coronavirus pandemic to an infamous Spider-Man meme.Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor, who was at the centre of last year’s Barnard Castle scandal, gave testimony to the Commons Health, and Science and Technology committees at Westminster today (May 26).During the lengthy questioning, Cummings made damning allegations against the PM, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and other government figures over their response to COVID-19 in 2020 and beyond.He said that Hancock should have been fired on “15 to 20” occasions, accusing him of “lying” throughout the health crisis.

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UK government failings during pandemic led to people dying - Cummings

People died unnecessarily because of UK government failings during the coronavirus pandemic, Boris Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings has told MPs.

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Dominic Cummings sorry over covid deaths and says Boris Johnson's Government 'failed'

MPs Boris Johnson's former adviser apologising for the Government’s failures during the coronavirus pandemic. The former aide said: “The truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its Government in a crisis like this.

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Covid Scotland LIVE - as Scotland’s recovery continues, Glasgow remains in Level Three lockdown

pandemic news will be dominated by Boris Johnson’s former adviser, Dominic Cummings. The aide is poised to give potentially damning testimony on the UK government’s handling of coronavirus, and particularly the decision to delay lockdown last September, when he appears in front of a joint session of the Commons Health and Science committees.

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Priti Patel furiously denies herd immunity was government plan in first weeks of Covid

Priti Patel furiously denied the Government pursued a strategy of “herd immunity” in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Cummings could accuse Boris Johnson of skipping Covid meetings to write Shakespeare book

Dominic Cummings could accuse Boris Johnson of skipping emergency Covid-19 meetings because he was busy writing a biography of Shakespeare, officials reportedly fear.

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Downing Street 'fears Dominic Cummings will share WhatsApp texts exposing Covid chaos'

Downing Street fears that Dominic Cummings will publish explosive WhatsApp group texts exposing chaos during the early days of the fight against Covid, it was reported last night.

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Dominic Cummings prepares 'treasure trove' dossier of Boris Johnson's Covid failings

Dominic Cummings is preparing to unleash a 'treasure trove' of secret information accusing Boris Johnson of personally being to blame for the UK's devastating coronavirus death toll.

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Squirming Matt Hancock grilled on why he's 'afraid' of public enquiry into Covid

Good Morning Britain 's Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard interviewed Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Tuesday's show and demanded to know why a public enquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic is being delayed.

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David Martindale blasts Nicola Sturgeon football 'privilege' claim amid Rangers Covid fallout

Rangers ’ Covidiots. The irritated Livingston boss is dismayed at constant references to clubs being privileged during First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ’s briefings with his outfit alone having shelled out £250,000 just to go to their work.

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High Court 'set to hear from Dominic Cummings' over controversial Covid contract

The High Court is set to hear evidence from Boris Johnson's former top aides on Monday, a campaign group has said in a battle over a controversial coronavirus contract.

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Janey Godley blasts vile troll who branded her a 'two-faced hypocritical witch'

Janey Godley has taken to Twitter to out an online troll who branded her a 'two-faced hypocritical witch'. The 59-year-old has been providing the nation with some much needed light-hearted relief during the coronavirus pandemic with her Nicola Sturgeon sketches, but not everyone has been singing her praises.

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Isolating Johnson to continue to lead UK Covid response

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted he will continue to lead his government's pandemic response as he self-isolates after meeting an MP who tested positive for Covid-19.

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Piers Morgan asks Matt Hancock why he hasn't resigned as Health Secretary admits 'mistakes'

Piers Morgan demanded to know why Matt Hancock hadn't resigned as the Tories finally ended a 201-day boycott of the ITV show.

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Feuding in Downing Street as UK faces Covid, Brexit challenges

Boris Johnson faces the challenges of soaring virus deaths and looming Brexit talks, two of his closest aides have resigned amid reports of bitter infighting.The British prime minister's top aide and the organiser of the "Vote Leave" campaign, Dominic Cummings, walked out of Downing Street on Friday holding a cardboard box.This came a day after the resignation of Johnson's communications director Lee Cain, a close Cummings ally who also worked on the "Leave" side of the 2016 referendum.While Cain was little-known to the British public, Cummings became massively unpopular in May when he failed to apologise for violating the government's strict coronavirus lockdown measures with lengthy road trips, while Johnson took his side.Cummings had

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Dr Hilary slams 'arrogant or stupid' MP Margaret Ferrier for flouting coronavirus rules

Good Morning Britain's Dr Hilary Jones took aim at MP Margaret Ferrier, after she apologised for knowingly using public transport after testing positive for coronavirus.

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Question Time: Margaret Ferrier must resign after Covid trip, admits fellow SNP MP

Margaret Ferrier has no choice but to resign, a fellow Scottish National Party MP has said after she travelled by train to London despite having tested positive for coronavirus.

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Boris Johnson blames 'too many breaches' for new wave of coronavirus restrictions

Too many people breaching coronavirus measures are to blame for the latest restrictions on the public, Boris Johnson said this evening.

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Dominic Cummings ally's firm given £1m of taxpayer cash - including health contract

A private firm run by two long-term associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings has been handed almost a million pounds of taxpayers' cash for advice on Covid-19 and reorganising the health and care system.

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Police urged to reopen investigation into Dominic Cummings’ controversial Covid-19 trip, by ex prosecutor

coronavirus - have written to police in Durham and London urging them to investigate Dominic Cummings. They want to know whether Boris Johnson’s right-hand man breached coronavirus lockdown laws on his trip to the North East of England at the height of the pandemic in April, the Mirror reports.

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Piers Morgan: GMB host stopped by police for speeding in lockdown 'Didn't start well'

Good Morning Britain star Piers Morgan, 55, has admitted he was stopped by the police after speeding earlier this month while he was on his way to a celebrity golf tournament.The ITV presenter revealed he thought about "pulling a Dominic Cummings-style" excuse when he was pulled over.Writing in his latest Daily Mail column, Piers shared how things turned out for him ahead of the tournament which was hosted by Paddy Power in early June.The GMB host admitted: "Things didn’t start well when I was stopped for speeding a mile from the club."It was a fair cop – I did toy with pulling a Dominic Cummings-style ‘I was only testing my eyesight’ excuse, but thought better of it."Mr Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser, claimed he

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