Dominic Cummings says something believable: PM had no plan to protect vulnerable people from Covid
Johnson along with ministers, government scientific advisers and civil servants is braced for a lambasting from the man who was his most senior adviser until November, when Cummings is questioned by MPs on Wednesday.
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On Tuesday, Cummings added to a 63-tweet thread on Twitter, saying that those in care homes and other social care, and vulnerable people asked to shield, had been failed.
One of the worst failings in Feb/March, less discussed than lockdown, was the almost total absence of a serious plan for shielding/social care, he claimed. As in general, there was widespread delusion we HAD a great plan. It turned out to barely exist.
He said a helpline number was left off letters to members of the public being asked to shield from the virus because the helpline had not yet been set up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/25/dominic-cummings-says-pm-had-no-plan-to-protect-vulnerable-people-from-covid
And, God help me, David Davis's comment seems right:
Former Brexit secretary David Davis said Cummings may have correctly identified some of the governments failings but there was little evidence he had tried to correct them when he was inside government. This is a man whose primary purpose in life is to rewrite history to make him look good, but that doesnt mean that everything he says is completely wrong, he said.