Former No 10 officials Martin Reynolds, Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain will give evidence this week
This module of the inquiry focuses on the decision-making at the heart of the Government during the pandemic, so questions are likely to focus on the biggest policy decisions and how they were made, including how lockdowns were decided.In the email, sent in May 2020 and first revealed in January 2022, he contacted more than 100 staff saying they should make the “most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening”.
Appearing before a Commons inquiry in 2021, Mr Cummings said he believed Mr Johnson was “unfit” to be Prime Minister, describing his handling of the pandemic as “like a shopping trolley smashing from one side of the aisle to the other”. Mr Cummings used his Substack blog the same afternoon to say that Mr Johnson’s claims that the Downing Street garden party was not against the rules is “not just obviously false, it’s further misinformation from him”.
One name notably absent from this round of testimony is cabinet secretary Simon Case, who is currently taking medical leave from work.
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