Ex-health secretary says Boris Johnson’s former adviser tried to exclude ministers from key decisions – including the PM
Dominic Cummings created a “culture of fear” inside Downing Street and attempted to exclude ministers and even Boris Johnson from key decisions at the start of the pandemic, hampering the government’s response, Matt Hancock has told the Covid inquiry.
Hancock, who was the health secretary during most of the crisis, also argued that if the UK had gone into lockdown three weeks earlier than it did, 90% of the deaths in the first wave of the pandemic could have been avoided.
