After several weeks of explosive and damning evidence, things are expected to go up another notch, as Dominic Cummings makes his appearance
Dominic Cummings is one of a number of former senior staff to testify at the Covid inquiry this week “Factional infighting and internecine attacks on colleagues.” “A depressing picture of a toxic atmosphere.” Both of these scenarios, apparently summing up the climate inside the government in the early days of the pandemic, have been gleaned from messages between Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and other officials at the time.
“Meals on wheels” services which provide tens of thousands of vulnerable people with vital hot food are heading for UK-wide collapse without government intervention. The National Association of Care Catering found that only 29 per cent of services are still in operation across the UK, and fewer than 18 per cent in England, amid cuts to local services.
Northumbria Police said it had responded after “received calls from residents” in Wallsend reporting that a woman and two dogs, had been injured.George Osborne has claimed messages of this nature will be disclosed at this week’s hearings. Speaking on Political Currency,he hosts with Ed Balls, the former Tory chancellor said: “I think we are going to get some pretty astonishing and frankly shocking WhatsApp messages and the like being published from the Johnson period.
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