Messages shown to the official inquiry showed aides including Dominic Cummings venting their frustrations.
Boris Johnson was presented with the “wrong crisis” as prime minister in coronavirus as he frustrated advisers by oscillating between decisions, the official inquiry has heard.
Messages between Mr Cain and Dominic Cummings, who served as the then-prime minister’s chief adviser, showed them venting their frustrations on WhatsApp.“Get in here he’s melting down,” Mr Cummings wrote on March 19 2020, days before the first lockdown, adding that Mr Johnson was “back to Jaws mode wank”.Explaining the Jaws reference, Mr Cain told the inquiry that Mr Johnson would refer to the mayor from the Jaws film “who wanted to keep the beaches open”.
Mr Cain was more cautious than Mr Cummings by avoiding saying their old ally was not up to the job as prime minister. A message from Mr Cummings sent on March 3 2020 said that Mr Johnson did not believe Covid was a “big deal and he doesn’t think anything can be done”. Mr Cain’s written evidence showed that Mr Johnson and others agreed in a meeting on March 14 that year that a full lockdown was the only way to save the NHS from collapse.
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