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The ongoing Covid inquiry in the UK has revealed evidence of a toxic and chaotic culture within the government during the pandemic. Former senior officials and civil servants have testified, including Helen MacNamara, who accused Dominic Cummings of violent and misogynistic behavior. The inquiry has also exposed rule-breaking and negligence in Downing Street, with claims that pandemic rules were not followed and the elderly were neglected. Boris Johnson has been criticized for his leadership, and the inquiry has sparked acrimony among officials. The inquiry is seen by some as a liberal-elite whitewash, while others argue it is necessary for accountability.
"There is a difference between making mistakes because you don’t have all the correct information and the sheer macho-fuelled chaos now being revealed by the Covid inquiry," writes @RMCunliffe https://t.co/Qhopt57Dcr
Is Dominic Cummings trying to be Adrian Mole or Harvey Keitel? The Covid inquiry was a display of empty bravado, writes @Docstockk: 👇https://t.co/nFoq3yPx8h
As the Covid-19 inquiry has confirmed, Boris Johnson was a truly woeful prime minister, writes @DavidGauke. https://t.co/irAVW0tXhG
Why has Dominic Cummings started dressing like an extra from Reservoir Dogs? Read @Docstockk on the performative mobsterism of the Covid inquiry: 👇https://t.co/nFoq3yPx8h
Nadine Dorries reveals 'desperate' Cabinet Office threats as she prepares to release most explosive political book of the year https://t.co/7g5Kwx5Fn4 https://t.co/olcOtDXi7f
Brilliant @FraserNelson column on the real lesson of the Covid inquiry. The picture emerges of Dominic Cummings, not as a cool-headed advisor, but as a one-man generator of hysteria inside Number Ten, with calamitous results for the nation. 👇👇👇 https://t.co/5WCWl0gMsi
"One of the lessons that’s been learnt is that some people should never be in government ever again!" Former Conservative minister David Mellor asks whether Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock "feel a sense of shame" over the Covid Inquiry. #TalkTV https://t.co/baNZlojvWs
The Covid inquiry is a liberal-elite whitewash, says Fraser Myers https://t.co/bedZznabzt
Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has spent the past year trying to banish memories of his chaotic predecessors. But the circus is back. The covid-19 inquiry is exposing the chaos in Boris Johnson’s government as the pandemic began https://t.co/Ot9iQm6KNW 👇
Whatever his electoral appeal, Boris Johnson was wholly incapable of doing the job, writes @DavidGauke. https://t.co/WcE4xCT8cP
The Covid inquiry has revealed what many already knew – the elderly were neglected, writes @zoe_grunewald. From @NS_Spotlight ⬇️ https://t.co/z9r9SYZAgW
Cabinet minister Michelle Donelan warns 'misogyny' on display in Dominic Cummings' foul-mouthed Covid WhatsApp messages - in which he referred to a top female official as a 'c***' - risks putting women off entering politics https://t.co/zejpTpE30Q https://t.co/z6m21inTSd
How Matt Hancock wanted to PLAY GOD during Covid: Ex-NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens sensationally reveals former Health Secretary pushed to 'ultimately decide who should live and who should die' if hospitals became overwhelmed https://t.co/bKimOHNfF9 https://t.co/1tzmkXRUnN
Toe-curling footage shows 'nuclear' Matt Hancock playing cricket in his Department of Health office just months before he aped hitting boundaries while telling civil servants everything was 'fine' on Covid https://t.co/pz897o0obU https://t.co/ctrx2rHnJJ
Before the argument gets going that the Tories should have stuck with Boris Johnson, all those who make that case should be asked to acknowledge that he was an incapable, unprofessional and negligent prime minister, writes @DavidGauke. https://t.co/zuXIbAP53Q
Boris Johnson would have been better off ignoring Dominic Cummings on lockdown. @KevinBardosh on what the media gets wrong about the Covid inquiry 👇 https://t.co/32zzejztC2
The portrait of Boris Johnson as a prime minister who was unserious, indecisive and unable to grasp detail is hardly new. But memorable colour is being added in the covid-19 inquiry, which has brought the circus back to British politics https://t.co/HY1jOJemDp 👇
As the Covid-19 inquiry has confirmed, Boris Johnson was a truly woeful prime minister, writes @DavidGauke. https://t.co/s7gxPT9yQo
The Covid inquiry is a liberal-elite whitewash. It’s being used to excuse the behaviour of our incompetent civil service, while shifting all the blame on to Brexit, Boris and anyone who opposed lockdown. It is taking the public for fools, says Fraser Myers https://t.co/bedZznabzt
Helen MacNamara, who was one of the country’s highest-ranking female officials, told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that sexism in No 10 damaged the response to the pandemic. Gina Miller: "It is absolutely unforgivable." @JeremyKyleLive | @thatginamiller https://t.co/q2bpKCTolM
STEPHEN GLOVER: Instead of this giant blame game, the Covid Inquiry should really be examining whether lockdown was ever worth it https://t.co/GHIJ2MUODj https://t.co/r26lF1R5XF
STEPHEN GLOVER: Instead of this giant blame game, the Covid Inquiry should really be examining whether lockdown was ever worth it https://t.co/8TuBCakUTT https://t.co/A1NnpBrWPT
The Covid inquiry is wasting everyone’s time. Why does it matter if Dominic Cummings called a civil servant a c***? We can’t let Westminster tittle-tattle stop the reckoning we need with lockdown, says Fraser Myers https://t.co/bedZznabzt
The Covid inquiry has revealed what many already knew – the elderly were neglected, writes @zoe_grunewald. From @NS_Spotlight ⬇️ https://t.co/YAttG8LtW3
'WE ARE F***ED!' Director of No10's 'nudge unit' reveals Downing Street colleague leaned over and scribbled over his note saying country was 'not ready' for 'unstoppable' Covid wave during gloomy March 2020 meeting https://t.co/NG8xZS3BsA https://t.co/RYQN3OXVgR
Vanessa Feltz and The Times' Hugo Rifkind react to Helen MacNamara’s Covid inquiry testimony where she condemned a “toxic” and “macho” culture in Boris Johnson’s government. “Today is a trolley, yesterday was a bulldozer, I don’t know what's going on.” #TalkTV https://t.co/zSvZ8ov0A4
With the Covid Inquiry exposing significant acrimony among senior officials during the pandemic, 59% of Britons say they too have bad-mouthed colleagues before https://t.co/nJGTMCo3Ju https://t.co/0bgtvBkF91
Matt Hancock 'repeatedly failed to tell the truth' to ministers and officials during Covid crisis and ex-health secretary aped playing cricket shots as he claimed everything was 'fine' https://t.co/0ymJm1ezsS https://t.co/6SOG68ULOi
Civil service chief who provided Karaoke machine for Partygate leaving do says there wasn't a single day when Covid rules were followed in Downing Street and 'hundreds' of ministers and officials could have been fined https://t.co/ttwkuMNfmG https://t.co/vWFnj96Sdk
Civil service chief who provided Karaoke machine for Partygate leaving do says there wasn't a single day when Covid rules were followed in Downing Street and 'hundreds' of ministers and officials could have been fined https://t.co/v91MhkVjNI https://t.co/6st0HCm08J
At the Covid inquiry, Dominic Cummings faced his least sympathetic interlocutor yet: Hugo Keith KC. Keith’s questions built to his central accusation: Cummings was a cause of the chaos in government during the pandemic, writes @harrytlambert ⬇️ https://t.co/9lEzi9enh9
Pandemic rules were broken on a daily basis in Boris Johnson’s Downing Street offices, a former senior civil servant tells the UK’s official Covid inquiry https://t.co/9rl6HaZEJs
Ex-civil servant Helen MacNamara slams Dominic Cummings over 'violent and misogynistic' WhatsApps branding her 'that c***' as he tried to get her axed during Covid - as she swipes at 'toxic' culture in No10 in evidence to official inquiry https://t.co/zaujI0bEXW https://t.co/Q78ifyCCAu
Helen MacNamara, who is giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry today, was the Government ethics chief who was at the heart of a very unethical lockdown-busting party at the height of the pandemic. https://t.co/Dp0jF0wBpM
Ex-civil servant Helen MacNamara slams Dominic Cummings over 'violent and misogynistic' WhatsApps branding her 'that c***' as he tried to get her axed during Covid - as she swipes at 'toxic' culture in No10 in evidence to official inquiry https://t.co/JVOdHCRbcM https://t.co/dqDsaZp38B
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson let the country down by not tackling the "toxic culture" he presided over, says ex-official at Covid Inquiry https://t.co/vGUzXYrCbS
Inside Downing Street's Covid WhatsApps: Dominic Cummings' foul-mouthed rants about 'f***pig' ministers and Boris Johnson's lockdown angst laid bare in extraordinary trove of messages shown to inquiry https://t.co/GxuxkbU0j2 https://t.co/VCq555TCl3
Helen MacNamara: Civil Service ethics chief fined by police for bringing karaoke machine to riotous, debauched Covid lockdown-busting Downing Street party - and who incurred the 'misogynistic' wrath of Dominic Cummings https://t.co/MD65CK6fBi https://t.co/Q46GDtAvMp
Ex-civil servant Helen MacNamara - who was branded a 'c***' by Dominic Cummings as he tried to get her axed - swipes at 'macho' behaviour in No10 at the start of pandemic as she gives evidence to Covid inquiry https://t.co/S8xNizM2av https://t.co/0ld8YljK1F
In Dominic Cummings’ telling in front of the Covid inquiry he was a dormant, blameless character until his pivotal intervention, rather than one who simply woke up late to a threat, writes @harrytlambert ⬇️ https://t.co/EclmVXwX4a