Boris Johnson was distracted, too media-obsessed and slow to grasp gravity of pandemic, says former aide
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Dominic Cummings has laid bare the “surreal” chaos in Downing Street in March last year as the government grappled with the Covid pandemic, describing the situation as “like a kind of out-of-control movie”.
During an extraordinary evidence session to MPs at Westminster on Wednesday, Boris Johnson’s former chief aide said ministers and advisers had disastrously failed the public, and gave damning assessments of the role of senior figures, including the prime minister.
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