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Covid taskforce had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’, inquiry told

The Guardian

Simon Ridley, the senior civil servant who was made head of the Cabinet Office’s Covid taskforce (CTF) in May 2020, told the inquiry the body had not been consulted about Sunak’s controversial plan to incentivise people to eat at restaurants and cafes that summer. Continue reading.

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During Covid, callous Tories knew this about old people: they’re very expensive | Polly Toynbee

The Guardian

Not once but often, the Covid inquiry has heard that he was for killing off elderly people, “ obsessed with older people accepting their fate ”. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading.

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Matt Hancock says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for ‘huge error’ in UK’s pandemic planning – UK politics live

The Guardian

Oakeshott, of course, is the journalist who helped Hancock produce his Pandemic Diaries, his account of handling the Covid crisis, before she betrayed his trust by leaking his private WhatsApp messages to the Daily Telegraph. She argued the revelations were in the public interest. Continue reading.

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Matt Hancock ‘profoundly sorry’ for Covid readiness failings

The Guardian

The former health secretary, who faced tense encounters with bereaved family members before giving evidence and after he had finished, said the UK had made a “huge error” in assuming a pandemiccould not be prevented from spreading. Continue reading.

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