Helen MacNamara, the second most senior civil servant in the country at the time, revealed that Covid guidance was likely broken every day inside Downing Street during the pandemic. She stated that hundreds of Whitehall officials and possibly ministers had breached the government's own rules. MacNamara's testimony was given during the Covid Inquiry.
Covid guidance was likely broken every day inside Downing Street during the pandemic, according to the second most senior civil servant in the country at the time.
“I would find it hard to pick one day when the regulations were followed properly inside that building,” she said.
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