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Mr Cain, former No 10’s director of communications who worked with Johnson on the Brexit campaign, said his former boss’s erratic decision-making was “rather exhausting”.
Messages between him and Mr Cummings, Johnson’s former chief advisor, showed them venting their frustrations on WhatsApp.
The inquiry also saw diary entries from Sir Patrick Vallance showing that Mr Johnson suggested he believed the pandemic was “Nature’s way of dealing with old people” as he resisted lockdowns.
Key WhatsApp moments in the COVID hearing
Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie ‘real person in charge’
In messages understood to have been from 14 October 2020, Mr Case writes: “Am not sure I can cope with today.”
In a discussion about the prime minister’s instructions about regional “circuit breaker” lockdowns with former health secretary Matt Hancock, Mr Case says “I am going to scream”.
Mr Cain replies: “Wtf are we talking about.”
Responding, in an apparent reference to Mr Johnson’s partner Carrie Johnson, Mr Case says: “Whatever Carrie cares about, I guess.”
He adds: “I was always told that Dom [Dominic Cumming] was the secret PM. How wrong they are. I look forward to telling select cttee tomorrow – ‘oh, f*** no, don’t worry about Dom, the real person in charge is Carrie’.”
In the same series of messages, Mr Cain says: “Also she doesn’t know wtf she is talking about either. Jesus.”
Covid Inquiry:
Boris Johnson said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’
And ‘we should let the old people get it’
Then he went after survivors with austerity, wage/pension/benefit cuts, NHS and social neglect.
We have a democidal state.https://t.co/C1KZ47wwAB
— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) October 31, 2023
Boris Johnson asks if the government ‘believes in long COVID’
In February 2021, Mr Johnson wrote in a WhatsApp message: “Do we really believe in long COVID? Why can’t we hedge it more? I bet it’s complete Gulf War…
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