Former senior civil servant Helen MacNamara said there was ‘laughing at the Italians’ early in the pandemic.
Boris Johnson’s Downing Street displayed an “unbelievably bullish” and dismissive approach to coronavirus early in the pandemic, a former senior civil servant has said.
Ms MacNamara is the latest official to give evidence after two days of hearings that portrayed dysfunction, indecision and dithering inside Mr Johnson’s government.She criticised a “macho” culture, a day after “misogynistic” messages about her written by Dominic Cummings were shown to the inquiry. Ms MacNamara said in early Cabinet meetings Mr Johnson was “very confident that the UK would sail through” and that they should be “careful of over-correcting”.
Ms MacNamara said there had been a “jovial tone” and that “sitting there and saying it was great and sort of laughing at the Italians was just … it felt how it sounds”.
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