terça-feira, 31 de outubro de 2023

COVID Inquiry: Dominic Cummings gives evidence to the inquiry / Cummings claims 'pretty much everyone' in No 10 agreed with him in calling Johnson 'trolley' because of his inconsistency


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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/oct/31/covid-inquiry-lee-cain-dominic-cummings-government-whatsapp-uk-politics-latest

Cummings claims 'pretty much everyone' in No 10 agreed with him in calling Johnson 'trolley' because of his inconsistency

Keith is now quoting from another Cummings document extremely critical of how the government machine was working.

 

Q: Was there any part of the government machine with which you did not find fault?

 

Cummings he spent some time talking to special forces, and they were exceptional.

 

Overall, there was “widespread failure”, he says. There were pockets of people doing exceptional work within an “overall dysfunctional system”.

 

Q: You complain that the PM ignored you because he was listening to “pop-ins”.

 

Cummings says that was a term used for when officials objected to a decision, and took the decision to pop in and see the PM, when Cummings was not there, to ask for a rethink. He says they would ask him to “trolley” on this.

 

Keith asks for a clarification.

 

Cummings says “trolley” was the term he used for Boris Johnson because he changed his mind so often. He claims “pretty much everyone” used the term to describe Johnson too.

 

They have now stopped for lunch.


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