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Britain’s top civil servant won’t appear at Covid inquiry this year due to ill health

Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett formally excused the cabinet secretary from giving evidence in 2023 ‘due to ill health’

The Independent UK

Whitehall infighting could hamper scrutiny of Telegraph sale

Foreign Office could stifle possible inquiry into bid from Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI in absence of cabinet secretary

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case could miss Covid inquiry evidence again due to illness

Cabinet secretary Simon Case’s evidence before the Covid inquiry appears to have been delayed for a second while he is on medical leave

The Independent UK

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Matt Hancock to tell Covid inquiry he is being made scapegoat by No10 ‘to cover up failings’

The former health secretary’s allies believe he is being used as a ‘dead cat’, with witnesses so far criticising his ‘nuclear levels’ of overconfidence and painting him as a serial liar

The Independent UK

Twenty seven of the most amusing and shocking claims from Nadine Dorries book The Plot

So, after so many exciting pre-publication puffs, Nadine Dorris’s book, The Plot, is out.

Evening Standard

A look inside Boris Johnson’s ‘feral’ No 10: this week at the Covid inquiry

Seven key moments, including top civil servants’ exasperation at chaotic environment in Downing Street

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

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OPINION - The Plot by Nadine Dorries review: a conspiratorial mess that fails to exonerate Boris Johnson

So, what’s the story about Nadine Dorris’s The Plot, subtitled, The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson – just so you know, the subtitle sums up the gist. The former Culture Secretary – and the joke there was on us – gave up her parliamentary seat in August to write this…

Evening Standard

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

Working with Boris Johnson's 'feral' team was like 'taming wild animals'

Working with Boris Johnson’s “brutal and useless” team was like “taming wild animals”, the two most senior civil servants who worked with…

The National (Scotland)

Top civil servant wanted Matt Hancock sacked as health secretary

Lord Sedwill joked it was necessary to remove Matt Hancock to ‘save lives and protect the NHS’

Evening Standard

Top civil servant wanted Hancock sacked as health secretary

Lord Sedwill joked it was necessary to remove Matt Hancock to ‘save lives and protect the NHS’.

The Independent UK

Johnson’s ‘brutal and useless’ team were like ‘wild animals’, top officials say

The assessment came from Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and his predecessor Lord Mark Sedwill.

The Independent UK

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

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The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

Simon Case said he'd 'never seen a group of people less well equipped to run a country', Covid inquiry hears

Mr Johnson later caught Covid organically during the course of the pandemic and was at one point in intensive care

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid live on TV, inquiry told

Covid inquiry also heard how Boris Johnson would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’ than order second lockdown

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid to show ‘it didn’t pose a threat’

The then-prime minister later said he would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’ than impose a second lockdown, a top aide told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

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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

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 Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry turns to the professionals for a masterclass in time-wasting

Former NHS England boss Simon Stevens turns out to be just the warmup act for the main event, Christopher Wormald

Evening Standard

Covid Inquiry: Biggest revelations from Dominic Cummings, Lee Cain, Helen MacNamara and other key players

From Number 10's 'macho overconfidence' to half-term holidays - the key takeaways

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Covid inquiry: shocking failures under the spotlight

Editorial: Evidence from Dominic Cummings and other key figures points to a deadly combination of chaos and recklessness

Evening Standard

OPINION - Boris Johnson was handicapped by Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain — we should pity him

I’m one of the last people on the planet who wants to revisit “partygate”, but one niggling detail of the fallout still bothers me.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dominic Cummings denounces Boris Johnson (and everyone else)

"Gov't isn't actually that hard but this guy is really making it impossible."

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