Covid inquiry: 10 things we learned from Boris Johnson’s former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara

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Covid inquiry: 10 things we learned from Boris Johnson’s former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara
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Matt Hancock had 'nuclear levels of confidence' and Downing Street had to wait seven months for hand sanitiser

Matt Hancock had ‘nuclear levels of confidence’ and Downing Street had to wait seven months for hand sanitiserheard from the most senior female civil servant in government at the time the pandemic broke out, former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara.

On 13 March 2020, as it became increasingly clear inside No10 that their Plan A to delay and contain the virus would not work and almost certainly overwhelm the NHS, Helen MacNamara, the then deputy cabinet secretary, walked into Boris Johnson’s office and told him: “We are in huge trouble. I have come here to tell you that I think we are absolutely f***ed. I think this country is heading for disaster. I think we are going to kill thousands of people.” She told the inquiry: “It was horrible.

Professor David Halpern, president of the government’s Behavioural Insights Team, said Mr Cummings was “blatantly breaking the rules” when he drove 260 miles from London to County Durham

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