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Cummings staged ‘power grab’ at start of pandemic, Hancock tells Covid inquiry

Ex-health secretary says Boris Johnson’s former adviser tried to exclude ministers from key decisions – including the PM

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Tens of thousands of lives could have been saved if the UK had locked down three weeks earlier, Matt Hancock has told the Covid inquiry, as he described the operation of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street as undermined by a “culture of fear”.

The former health secretary said his staff were abused by Dominic Cummings and that Johnson’s then chief adviser attempted to exclude ministers and even Johnson himself from key decisions at the start of the pandemic, hampering the government’s response.

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