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‘I would make a stand. For Boris. My rock’ – Nadine Dorries’ The Plot, digested by John Crace

The former minister stretches out a tale of a fiendishly fiendish Tory party conspiracy. Our sketch writer shortens the story

The Guardian - UK

Top civil servant’s foul-mouthed attack on ‘lying’ Matt Hancock at Covid inquiry

The inquiry also saw a message from Lord Sedwill to Simon Case saying Matt Hancock was ‘far up Boris Johnson’s a***’

The Independent UK

Britain’s former top civil servant apologises for suggesting chickenpox-style Covid parties

The former cabinet secretary acknowledged the remarks could seem ‘heartless and thoughtless’

The Independent UK

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Covid inquiry hears more testimony about Johnson’s ‘brutal and useless’ No 10

Former civil service chief also says he did not trust Matt Hancock, the ‘over-promising’ health secretary

The Guardian - UK

Cummings warned over Downing Street ‘dictatorship’ by top civil servant

The clash between Lord Sedwill and Dominic Cummings came in mid-March 2020.

The Independent UK

Sedwill apologises for bringing up ‘chickenpox parties’ during Covid

The former Cabinet secretary acknowledged the remarks could seem ‘heartless’.

The Independent UK

Covid Inquiry latest: Lord Sedwill joked he wanted Matt Hancock sacked 'to save lives and protect the NHS'

The Covid-19 Inquiry is hearing from Lord Mark Sedwill, the former head of the civil service who departed Government amid reported clashes with Dominic Cummings.

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Sir Mark Sedwill: Ex-civil service chief who ‘clashed with Dominic Cummings’ to face Covid inquiry

Sir Mark Sedwill was running the civil service when the pandemic struck but resigned in September 2020

Evening Standard

Ex-head of civil service who ‘clashed with Dominic Cummings’ to face inquiry

Sir Mark Sedwill was running the civil service when the pandemic struck but resigned in September 2020.

The Independent UK

Claims and conspiracies, and pulling the trigger on Johnson: Dorries’ book tells all

The Plot: the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson says a secretive Tory cabal brought down the ex-PM – and Rishi Sunak takes advice from ‘Dr No’

The Guardian - UK

Top officials called Johnson’s No 10 ‘mad’ and ‘poisonous’, Covid inquiry hears

Cabinet Office’s Simon Case told cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill: ‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’

The Guardian - UK

Westminster is rife with ‘entitlement syndrome’. During Covid it cost lives

I recognise this from my time in cabinet, says Justine Greening, former education secretary

The Guardian - UK

Former Boris Johnson aide Cleo Watson teases sex and scandal in new 'bonkbuster' novel

Cleavage is Cleo Watson's second novel

Evening Standard

The Covid inquiry must look at facts as well as guilt

Letters: David Hughes hopes the inquiry will correct the lurch towards a presidential style of government. Plus letters from Peter Slessenger, Michael Lavin, June Findlater and Susan Mahoney

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In Boris Johnson’s Lord of the Flies fraternity, women were there to be talked over or banished

It’s little wonder that No 10’s misogyny had fatal consequences for the female population

The Guardian - UK

Cummings vs MacNamara: the backstage clash at the heart of the UK’s Covid response

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser and senior civil servant traded blows at the pandemic inquiry last week, describing horrifying levels of government chaos. The irony was how often their assessments agreed

The Guardian - UK

When Britain most needed a decent leader, we had a derelict at the helm

The Covid inquiry testimony is an eviscerating indictment of Boris Johnson and a stain on the reputation of his enablers

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries claims secretive Tory cabal called ‘the movement’ brought down Boris Johnson

Extract from new book say former PM was told: ‘If you don’t go, I’m going to take you down. I’ll finish you off’

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The Independent UK

James O’Brien, LBC’s mid-morning mouthpiece, on the problem with Farage, right-wing media and being a ‘heterosexual bruiser’

The notoriously opinionated radio host speaks to Louis Chilton about meeting Matthew Perry, the BBC’s ‘mess’ of an impartiality system, and why his new book tackles the 10 people who ‘broke Britain’

The Guardian - UK

Dorries claims Tory cabal called the ‘movement’ brought down Johnson

Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove were key figures in group that controlled the Conservatives, says ex-culture secretary

The Independent UK

Defiant Boris Johnson denies claims he was indecisive over lockdown as Covid gripped Britain

Former PM also insists he gave ‘highest priority’ to human life after inquiry heard he believed virus was nature’s way of dealing with the elderly

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson says Covid ‘indecision’ was him debating lockdown impact

In written evidence to Covid inquiry ex-PM admits being torn over first lockdown due to economic harm

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson will struggle to reverse narrative of ‘chaotic’ Covid reign

Inquiry evidence stacks up against former PM in repeated references to him being out of control and indecisive

The Guardian - UK

The trolleying PM: a guide to the language of Boris Johnson’s No 10

Covid inquiry highlights foul-mouthed, macho culture in Downing Street as Britons died in their thousands

Evening Standard

Will Rishi Sunak set the record straight at the Covid-19 inquiry?

With conflicting claims about his pandemic role, the PM will set the record straight

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