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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sophie Wingate

REVEALED: Cummings sedwill s departure set off bomb across whitehall | Vintage Vibes

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Mark Sedwill losing his job as cabinet secretary “set off a kind of bomb across the whole system”, Dominic Cummings has told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser said he “begged” the then-prime minister not to effectively sack Mr – now Lord – Sedwill, despite using obscenities to describe him in WhatsApp messages.

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