NEWS
Matt Hancock should have been sacked for ‘lying to everybody’, says Cummings
Giving evidence about the Government’s Covid response to MPs yesterday, Dominic Cummings accused Matt Hancock of ‘criminal, disgraceful behaviour’ during the early days of the Covid pandemic. The Prime Minister’s former chief aide accused Hancock of being a serial liar whose behaviour directly hindered the Government’s ability to tackle the pandemic last year, and claimed that the Secretary of State should have been fired ‘for at least 15, 20 things, including lying to everybody’ – Mail
Department for Education had no plan for dealing with a pandemic, says critical report by MPs – Guardian
France toughens rules for Britons arriving because of the of Indian Covid variant – Telegraph
Joe Biden orders US intelligence to intensify efforts to study Covid’s origins – Guardian
Texas legislature passes bill to ban abortion if Roe v Wade is overturned – Epoch Times
COMMENT
Boris, Carrie and Hancock all took one hell of a battering from Dominic Cummings but the reputation he really destroyed was his own – Dan Wootton, Mail
Stampede for digital currency poses a threat to our banking system – Jeremy Warner, Telegraph