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24 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A year since we revealed Dominic Cummings' lockdown-busting trip to County Durham at the height of the first wave, he prepares to deliver explosive testimony to MPs on how the Government handled the pandemic.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
It marks the culmination of the collapse of one of the most influential political relationship of modern times which - as @ShippersUnbound says - "began to disintegrate in the week that Cummings had to account for his car journey north." thetimes.co.uk/article/danger…
Cummings has already said he is prepared to hand over a key document on Covid decision-making in government - and will no doubt have plenty of texts, WhatsApp messages and even recordings to back up his account of what went wrong.
In interests of transparency, hope he is also willing to provide evidence of where he was on April 19 last year - when 5 witnesses (2 on record) claim they saw him back up in Co Durham for second time - despite him also being spotted in Hampstead. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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Boris Johnson promises a "fitting and permanent memorial" to all those who lost their lives in the pandemic.
Boris Johnson says there are "distinct signs of a third wave" on the European continent.

Then rattles through "tough" borders measures in place here - which of course only came in on February 15.
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But reverts to asymptomatic transmission line - nothing about delays in decision making which, of course, are on him.
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17 Mar
Look who’s back...
Committee chair @GregClarkMP reveals that Dominic Cummings has agreed to give evidence on the Covid pandemic to the joint health/science committee inquiry... but not today.
Cummings reveals conditions he set out to Boris Johnson to join him in No 10 the w/e before he became PM:
1. get Brexit done/ no 2nd ref
2. double science budget
3. create Arpa-style body
4. change how "disaster" of Whitehall works
Johnson told him: "Deal"
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Priti Patel tells MPs that heartache over Sarah Everard's death can be summed up in five words: "She was only walking home".

Home Sec says online accounts of womens' experiences are "so powerful" because "every single one of us can relate to them".
Home Sec says there has been a "totally unprecedented" 78,000 responses to the reopened govt consultation on tackling violence against women and girls since Friday.

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“I asked the Commissioner to come in today to give me an explanation of yesterday’s events... I am not satisfied with the explanation provided."
Home Office sources confirm that Priti Patel has also asked the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Windsor, for a report into the Met's policing of the vigil yesterday.
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