Readers on the former No 10 adviser’s revelations about the incompetence of the government in handling the Covid crisis
It is astonishing that it has taken so long for self-styled superbrain Dominic Cummings to figure out that the man he put into No 10 is “unfit for the job” (Report, 26 May). The rest of us have been painfully aware of this for many years, and never more so than over the last 18 months. While Cummings’ testimony was full of sanctimonious bile and he is not known for his honesty, as long as Boris Johnson refuses to initiate a timely public inquiry this may be the best opportunity we get to see behind the curtain and reveal the mishandling of the pandemic by this “confederacy of dunces” led by Johnson and Cummings.
Jane Barrett
Buxton, Derbyshire
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