Dominic Cummings says government’s response to COVID “was like that Spider-Man meme”

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Richard Madeley vented his frustration about the future of lockdown as his son’s wedding hangs in the balance. On Good Morning Britain, the team discussed the expected extension of lockdown as Boris Johnson appears to make a statement today.This includes potential restrictions around weddings, with thousands of couples unsure if their big day could go ahead.

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virus expert. Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, said Holyrood leaders repeated the same devastating errors as Westminster.

Dominic Cummings are "not true", as he fought to save his career. The Prime Minister's former aide accused Hancock of repeatedly lying, being disastrously incompetent and claimed he should have been fired on multiple occasions during the course of the pandemic.

Kate Garraway has shared her feelings about Dominic Cummings' evidence on how the Government handled the coronavirus pandemic and the impact it had on her family, saying those in charge "didn't care enough".The Good Morning Britain presenter opened up on her reaction to the former adviser's comments about Boris Johnson and key ministers' attitudes to the unfolding crisis, talking about how it made her feel as her family are still dealing with the effects of their decisions.

The tiering system that led to an explosive stand-off between Greater Manchester and the government last October had been ‘bodged together’ on the fly with no financial support plan in place, the Prime Minister’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has said, while Boris Johnson ‘constantly changed his mind’ about what places should be subject to what measures.

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Prime Minister’s former adviser said Johnson dismissed the pandemic as a “scare story” or the new “swine flu” in early 2020 as the global crisis loomed and then had to be persuaded to lock down in March.

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Prime Minister was called on by the SNP’s Ian Blackford to apologies for the thousands of covid deaths over the last year. The SNP Westminster leader said: “The Prime Minister’s most senior former adviser, Dominic Cummings, apologised on behalf of the UK Government."“He said ‘when the public needed us most, we failed’.“We know the Prime Minister made a series of catastrophic errors throughout the crisis.“He went on holiday when he should have been leading efforts to tackle the pandemic.

MPs Boris Johnson's former adviser apologising for the Government’s failures during the coronavirus pandemic. The former aide said: “The truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its Government in a crisis like this.

Boris Johnson for comparing women wearing the burka to letterboxes.