It is hard to keep up with the shocking revelations emerging from the Covid inquiry. Was the lowlight of the evidence provided by Dominic Cummings on Tuesday 31 October (Halloween – purely by coincidence), the WhatsApp message where Boris Johnson’s former guru called cabinet ministers “useless f***pigs”? Or the one where he threatened to “personally handcuff” the second highest-level civil servant, Helen MacNamara, and “escort her from the building” because “we cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that c***”?
What about when a message from the former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance revealed that Johnson had wondered whether “Covid is just Nature’s way of dealing with old people”? Or the news that the then prime minister asked his advisers whether people could kill Covid by blowing a hairdryer up their nose? Or McNamara’s own evidence that she would “find it hard to pick one day” when the regulations were “followed properly” within No 10?
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