Health department was ‘smoking ruin’ on Covid – Cummings
The prime minister’s former aide criticises the department over PPE and procurement at start of the pandemic. …
“I said, yes, if first of all you are deadly serious about actually getting Brexit done and avoiding a second referendum; secondly, double the science budget; third, create some Aria like entity, and fourth support me in trying to change how Whitehall works and the Cabinet Office works because it is a disaster zone. And he said ‘deal’.”