Dom’s day out: Cummings blames PM for tens of thousands of Covid deaths as he reveals Number 10 chaos May 26, 2021 Dominic Cummings has laid the blame for tens of thousands of Covid deaths at the feet of Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock in an explosive seven-hour hearing in which the former Number 10 aide pulled the curtain back on a year of chaos inside government. Cummings told MPs that Johnson was “unfit” to be Prime [...]
Cummings: Boris Johnson DID say he would rather see ‘bodies pile high’ than lock down a third time May 26, 2021 Dominic Cummings has claimed Boris Johnson did say last October that he would rather see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than plunge England into a third lockdown – the first person to publicly corroborate the story on-record. It was widely reported last month that Johnson was so infuriated when he was forced to announce [...]
Indecisive Boris Johnson a ‘shopping trolley smashing between aisles’, says Cummings May 26, 2021 Dominic Cummings has hit out at Boris Johnson’s indecisiveness and described him as “a shopping trolley smashing from one side of the aisle to the other” as a part of a blistering attack on his apparent inability to lead the country as Prime Minister. Cummings said that it was “crackers” Johnson was in office and that [...]
Cummings: Matt Hancock should have been sacked for ‘criminal, disgraceful behaviour’ May 26, 2021 Dominic Cummings has claimed Matt Hancock should have been sacked for “criminal, disgraceful behaviour” in reference to failures in setting up England’s test and trace system. The former Number 10 aide said former cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill agreed with him and that Boris Johnson “came close to removing” Hancock in April 2020. The Prime [...]
Cummings: Boris Johnson called Covid-19 a ‘scare story’ and ‘the new swine flu’ May 26, 2021 Cummings: Boris Johnson called Covid-19 a 'scare story' and 'new swine flu'
Top UK civil servant wanted to run Covid ‘chicken pox parties’ in March 2020 May 26, 2021 Dominic Cummings has apologised for the UK’s slow response to the Covid-19 pandemic, while saying Boris Johnson did not take the virus seriously even in February 2020. He said “senior officials and advisers such as me fell disastrously short” of expected standards during February and March of 2020 and that thousands died “unnecessarily”. Johnson’s former [...]
English mass event trials only led to 15 Covid cases out of 58,000 people May 25, 2021 England’s collection of mass event trials have been deemed a “real success”, with only 15 positive Covid cases out of 58,000 people. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden said the results showed “we’re making good progress along the line to bring the West End back to life again”. The government put on a series of indoor events [...]
Dominic Cummings to say PM said ‘Covid is only killing 80-year-olds’ to delay lockdown May 25, 2021 Dominic Cummings will tomorrow tell a joint parliamentary committee that Boris Johnson justified delaying a second lockdown last autumn by saying “Covid is only killing 80-year-olds”. The Prime Minister’s former aide will reportedly tell the meeting that Johnson said last September that he would not repeat March’s lockdown and that he said: “I’m going to [...]
Vaccines minister confirms self-isolation won’t end on 21 June for fully vaccinated May 25, 2021 Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has confirmed that fully vaccinated people will likely still need to self-isolate if they come into contact with someone with Covid once all restrictions are removed on 21 June. Zahawi told MPs today that “even if you have had two doses of either vaccine – and I have had this in my own [...]
Boris Johnson comments on women in burqas made Tories seem ‘insensitive’ to Muslims, says probe May 25, 2021 Anti-Muslim sentiment within the Tory party “remains a problem” and Boris Johnson’s comments on women in burqas created a sense that the party is “insensitive” to the community, according to a report into Islamophobia in the party. The independent report, authored by professor Swaran Singh, also said there was a “recurrent concern” among community groups [...]
