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...In private messages from 2020 seen by the inquiry, Johnson was told by Cummings that Hancock’s “uselessness” was “killing” people....
...Last week, the inquiry was shown messages from 2020 in which Cummings warned Johnson that Hancock was “unfit for this job” and had “killed people”....
...In evidence on Thursday, Hancock said a “toxic” culture at the heart of government had hampered ministers’ response to the crisis and accused Dominic Cummings, then Johnson’s chief adviser, of trying to...
...“Still no fucking serious testing in care homes his uselessness is still killing God knows how many,” Cummings wrote of Hancock....
...The inquiry was on Tuesday shown messages from 2020 in which Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, warned that Hancock was “unfit for this job” and had “killed people”....
...It has also seen private messages in which Cummings warned Johnson that Hancock’s “incompetence” was “killing” people....
...Asked if she was suggesting Hancock regularly said things that were not true, MacNamara said “yes”....
...On May 7, Cummings warned Johnson that the “incompetence” of Matt Hancock, then health secretary, was “killing” people....
...The claims included those from Lee Cain, former Downing Street head of communications, who said Johnson had “oscillated” on key decisions, and Dominic Cummings, his former chief adviser, who described him...
...Well, it didn’t matter enough to stop Gove, Hancock or Cummings wanting Sunak to replace Johnson as prime minister....
...I’m selling, as though his stock are getting lower, Matt Hancock. Admittedly . . . Stephen BushYou have Matt Hancock in you portfolio? Lucy FisherI know, I know....
...In an extract from his notes from another meeting the same month, Vallance wrote that Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, suggested in a meeting that Sunak believed it was “OK” to “just let...
...In Johnson’s words, Sunak is a “stooge” inserted into Number 10 by Cummings, his mercurial former chief of staff who he sacked in late 2020....
...A subsequent episode about the Johnson government — or rather the Cummings one, as various contributors imply — broadly consists of familiar phrases such as “casual attitude”, “conditional loyalty” and “...
...Dominic Cummings was deeply unsuited to the role of de facto chief of staff. He could not do it....
...Some asylum seekers are staying in a squat on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, just next to the headquarters of De Moor’s party, CD&V....
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...And thanks for the offer, but I really don’t want to know how you “bonded” any more than I want to watch video footage of Matt Hancock scoring in the office....
...Ice rinks are also acutely challenged, said Kirsty Cumming, chief executive of Community Leisure UK. But it is the swimming pool operators that are likely to be hit hardest, said Sesnan....
...We know that Matt Hancock himself warned against it as it was going on. He said it was creating some real problems....
...We’ve already had Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock tootling around Britain’s waterways in Great Canal Journeys, and Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan playing exaggerated versions of themselves on The Trip....
...Hancock has repeatedly denied Cummings’ claims. The chairs of the joint committee have written to the former aide, asking for evidence to back up his claims ahead of Thursday’s hearing....
...Dominic Cummings released the damaging WhatsApp messages on his Twitter feed....
...Matthew Hancock opened his evidence session by insisting that he never lied to Boris Johnson during the pandemic, contrary to claims by Cummings two weeks ago....
...Hancock has already brushed aside the claims. Speaking outside his home, he said he had not watched Cummings’ performance in full....
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