Boris Johnson's former chief aide is giving evidence to the official COVID inquiry, following his ex-colleague Lee Cain.
There was no shielding plan early in the pandemic and vulnerable groups were 'appallingly neglected' as a 'fatalistic' approach took hold in Downing Street, Dominic Cummings has claimed. The former chief aide to Boris Johnson, who described Downing Street as being in 'complete chaos', was asked to what degree decision-makers considered ethnic minority groups, domestic abuse victims and others in the run-up to imposing a national lockdown.
The inquiry also heard: • There were conversations in early March 2020 - weeks before the national lockdown - about whether local authorities could book out ice rinks and hire trucks to carry and store 'massive numbers of bodies'; • Matt Hancock 'sowed chaos' by continuing to insist in March 2020 that people without symptoms of a dry cough and a temperature were unlikely to be suffering from coronavirus; • Everyone in Downing Street called Mr Johnson an indecisive...
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