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Carrie Johnson was 'real person in charge' during Covid, top civil servant said

BORIS Johnson’s wife Carrie was the “real person in charge” in Downing Street during the Covid pandemic, according to the UK’s most senior…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 13, 2023

Revealed: Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’s secret Covid WhatsApp messages

In a WhatsApp message to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings described the Cabinet Office as ‘terrifyingly s***’

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2023

Boris Johnson did not want meetings with Nicola Sturgeon during Covid

BORIS Johnson has said he thought it was "wrong" for him to hold regular meetings with Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh First Minister during…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 11, 2023

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Conservative Party conference explained: John Rentoul answers your questions

Our chief political correspondent John Rentoul answers your questions on HS2, the smoking ban and what’s next for the Conservatives following Rishi Sunak’s first keynote speech as party leader

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2023

Boris Johnson’s decision-making over Covid was ‘bipolar’, Sir Patrick Vallance warned

The former PM was accused of failing to lead the country in the early days of the pandemic, the UK Covid Inquiry was told

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023

Boris Johnson ‘scrawled in capitals that long Covid was ‘b*****ks’, Covid Inquiry hears

Long Covid groups claim the former prime minister initially ‘denied the truth of the suffering’

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

Covid-19 bereaved ‘haven’t had access to Boris Johnson’s phone messages’

Material provided to the public inquiry into the Covid crisis has not been made available to bereaved families, say lawyers

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023

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Covid-19 bereaved families ‘haven’t had access to Johnson’s phone messages’

It comes as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is set to begin its second module.

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023

Sunak and Johnson Covid-19 inquiry appearances delayed ‘to avoid party conference season’

Questions for current and ex-PM over their handling of the pandemic put off

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2023

Boris Johnson made to ‘look like a chump’ as ex-aide shuns Tories in Lords

Dan Rosenfield decides to sit as independent after being nominated by former PM in resignation honours list

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023

Former Boris Johnson aide Dominic Cummings ‘plots new party to end rotten Tory horror show’

Dominic Cummings comments described as ‘yet more mad ramblings from a narcissistic egomaniac’

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2023

Government’s ‘small boats week’ ends in humiliation as barge evacuated over legionnaires’ disease fears

Migrants forced to disembark from ‘Bibby Stockholm’ just days after arriving on board

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2023

Matt Hancock seeks to humiliate himself in public again

After an astonishing rise, the fall of Matt Hancock from pandemic Health Secretary to floundering reality TV entrant somehow still fails to win sympathy from the British public. Funny that, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2023

Matt Hancock: The energetic health secretary who was brought down by his own lockdown rules

Profile: The rising star of managerial Conservatism thought he had done a good job during the pandemic, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2023

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Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2023

Which MPs have broken Covid rules? Boris Johnson found to have committed contempt

Alongside Mr Johnson, a number of MPs have been found to have broken lockdown rules

Daily Record · Jun 14, 2023

Police Scotland appoints Jo Farrell as new Chief Constable amid SNP finances investigation

Farrell was criticised in 2020 when she was in charge of Durham Police for failing to question Dominic Cummings after his lockdown trip to Barnard Castle.

The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2023

Partygate: A timeline of lockdown gatherings

Partygate led to ‘self-reported’ reduction in people following lockdown rules over Christmas 2021, report finds

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2023

Didn’t You Use to Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022 review – blasts from the sidelines

The views of the former Labour minister make for jarring moments in this latest volume of his diaries

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The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2023

Government WhatsApps about ‘frothy’ coffee orders, not major decisions, former health minister claims

The existence of three key group chats comes ahead of the first hearings of the official inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic

Daily Mirror · Jun 2, 2023

Boris Johnson WhatsApp drama - why it matters and the big problem it poses for Sunak

An ugly legal spat has erupted between the Government and the official Covid-19 inquiry which it set up after officials were ordered to hand over tens of thousands of unedited messages. Here we explain what's happening after days of twists and turns

The National (Scotland) · May 31, 2023

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Daily Mirror · May 30, 2023

11 awkward questions as Covid inquiry demands Boris Johnson's missing WhatsApps

An ugly legal row could see a court showdown between the Government and the official Covid-19 Inquiry over the shamed former PM's messages and missing notepads

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2023

The Covid inquiry is digging up Boris Johnson’s blunders and the mess keeps piling up

The former prime minister seems determined to drag the Tories down with him when the public hearings into Britain’s handling of the pandemic begin

The Independent UK · May 26, 2023

Parliament full of ‘nooks and crannies’ for MPs to have sex in, Boris Johnson ex-aide says

Cleo Watson has recently written her first novel which includes a scene depicting a couple in ‘flagrante’ at Chequers

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023

Chillaxing at Chequers: how Boris Johnson used the PM’s country house

The 16th-century mansion was given to the nation to allow its leader to unwind, and Johnson took full advantage

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