The UK was hit by “widespread failure” in its response to Covid-19, the official inquiry into the pandemic has heard, with Boris Johnson believing old people should contract the virus to protect the economy and wavering on whether to impose lockdowns.
Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to the then prime minister, said in evidence on Tuesday that a “dysfunctional system” of state led vulnerable groups to be “appallingly neglected” in March 2020.
“Overall, it’s widespread failure but pockets . . . doing excellent work,” he said, adding that the Cabinet Office, the department that runs the machinery of government, was a “dumpster fire” and that senior officials going on holiday in February 2020 was “pretty insane”.
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