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Cummings warned over Downing Street ‘dictatorship’ by top civil servant in London, UK

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This footage was filmed and produced 8 November 2023.

Dominic Cummings was warned that Number 10 was not running a “dictatorship”, in a clash with the country’s most senior civil servant over the handling of pandemic preparation.

Cabinet Secretary Lord Sedwill made the intervention as Boris Johnson’s then-top adviser suggested he would chair a key meeting in mid-March 2020 ahead of a later meeting with the Prime Minister.

In an email shared with the Covid inquiry, dated March 11, Mr Cummings asked for a meeting “chaired by me or Lee (Cain), so we are in position to answer Qs properly for PM at 9”.

He complained that the meeting that day had “involved a load of people from comms baffled about POLICY”.

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