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Cobra meeting delayed over fears Hancock wanted to ‘make a splash’, inquiry told

Ex-Cabinet secretary Lord Mark Sedwill told the Covid inquiry he was concerned the health secretary wanted a meeting ‘for communications purposes’.

The Independent UK

Covid Inquiry latest: Lord Sedwill joked he wanted Matt Hancock sacked 'to save lives and protect the NHS'

The Covid-19 Inquiry is hearing from Lord Mark Sedwill, the former head of the civil service who departed Government amid reported clashes with Dominic Cummings.

Evening Standard

Sir Mark Sedwill: Ex-civil service chief who ‘clashed with Dominic Cummings’ to face Covid inquiry

Sir Mark Sedwill was running the civil service when the pandemic struck but resigned in September 2020

Evening Standard

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Ex-head of civil service who ‘clashed with Dominic Cummings’ to face inquiry

Sir Mark Sedwill was running the civil service when the pandemic struck but resigned in September 2020.

The Independent UK

Top officials called Johnson’s No 10 ‘mad’ and ‘poisonous’, Covid inquiry hears

Cabinet Office’s Simon Case told cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill: ‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’

The Guardian - UK

Who were the key advisers in No 10 at the height of the Covid pandemic?

The Covid inquiry is hearing about people in Downing Street during the pandemic who helped the government make decisions

The Guardian - UK

‘Nastiness, arrogance and misogyny’ of No 10 exposed at Covid inquiry

WhatsApp messages also reveal Boris Johnson’s dismissive attitude to millions of old people at risk from the virus

The Guardian - UK

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Cummings: Sedwill’s departure ‘set off bomb’ across Whitehall

Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser told the Covid-19 Inquiry he ‘begged’ the then-prime minister not to effectively sack the top civil servant.

The Independent UK

The extraordinary WhatsApp messages that reveal the ‘chaos’ of Boris Johnson’s government

Messages sent between Dominic Cummings, Lee Cain and Simon Case laid bare the chaos behind Downing Street’s response to Covid

The Independent UK

Revealed: Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’s secret Covid WhatsApp messages

In a WhatsApp message to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings described the Cabinet Office as ‘terrifyingly s***’

The Independent UK

Partygate on Channel 4: what’s real and what isn’t?

Drug-fuelled benders, karaoke sets and whistleblowers: we separate fact from fiction

Evening Standard

Louise Casey: ‘We need a change of government. This lot are spent’

After 30 years of helping homeless people and troubled families, the can-do peer says she’s had her fill of this Tory administration

The Guardian - UK

8 bombshells in Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson's Partygate lies

MPs said some of his denials and explanations for lockdown bashes were 'so disingenuous' that they were clearly deliberate attempts to mislead Parliament and the Committee in its inquiries

Daily Mirror

Future of war will be in artificial intelligence, warns ex-national security adviser

It comes amid mounting alarm over the threat from AI technology after Rishi Sunak's top tech adviser warned world leaders had just two years to get a grip on the rapidly developing field

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The Independent UK

Artificial intelligence is the future of war, former national security advisor Mark Sedwill says

Ex head of civil service says UK needs to invest in capabilities

The Week

Johnson at 10 review: an ‘authoritative’ and ‘often jaw-dropping’ book

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

The Guardian - UK

Truss and Kwarteng sacking of top civil servants ‘damaged government’

Instant removal of Treasury’s permanent secretary potentially worsened mini-budget crisis, parliamentary committee hears

The Independent UK

MPs and officials who caused trouble for Boris Johnson given knighthoods

Tory MP Julian Lewis and standards committee chair Chris Bryant are among those with gongs

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The Independent UK

Knighthoods for MPs who caused trouble for Johnson

The Treasury chief sacked by Liz Truss on her first day is also recognised in New Year Honours.

Birmingham Post

Top Civil Service boss to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson to join BAE Systems board

Lord Sedwill was also a British ambassador and NATO representative in Afghanistan

Wales Online

Partygate report names or pictures 16 people - this is who they are

Sue Gray, who led the inquiry, said it was in the public interest to name senior individuals involved

The Independent UK

Who has been named in Sue Gray’s report?

A total of 16 individuals – from former civil servants to serving members of the Cabinet – have been named in the investigation.

The Independent UK

Government’s ethics chief took karaoke machine to ‘excessive’ lockdown party

Helen MacNamara, the then deputy cabinet secretary, has been fined by police for her part in a No 10 leaving party on June 18 2020.

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