05-06-2023, 08:55
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: BoJo referred to police by the Cabinet Office. Partygate II?
Anyway, back in the news, two seemingly contradictory statements…
On Radio 4 this morning
https://twitter.com/paulbranditv/sta...Fx9lsEXWlOa1jg
Quote:
Former Health Minister during the pandemic Lord Bethell* insists that govt decisions were not made via WhatsApp.
“Most of the WhatsApp messages are about coffee and who needs to have what kind of coffee for what meeting”.
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In todays Times
The three vital WhatsApp groups No 10 used to beat the pandemic
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7...6017cd4dcfc7fa
Quote:
Ministers and officials used numerous WhatsApp groups to make crucial decisions about the pandemic, The Times can disclose, as the chairwoman of the Covid inquiry prepares to rebuke the government on Tuesday for its refusal to hand over unredacted messages...
… The legal wrangle has raised questions about the use of WhatsApp in government both during the pandemic and subsequently. The Times has been told of the existence of three WhatsApp groups that played pivotal roles in the government’s response to the pandemic.
One, named “CSA/CMO/Matt/PM/Dom”, was set up in March 2020 and had seven members: Johnson, then the prime minister; Matt Hancock, the health secretary; Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s chief adviser; Lee Cain, Johnson’s communications director; Sir Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer; Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser; and Simon Case, initially the Downing Street permanent secretary and later cabinet secretary.
A second group, named “No 10/DHSC/Covid-19”, was set up in February 2020 and had a much broader membership of just over 30. It did not include Johnson but included Cummings, Cain, Whitty and Vallance as well as Sir Chris Wormald, the permanent secretary at the Department of Health. Others in the group included data science officials, civil contingencies experts, Munira Mirza, the head of Johnson’s policy unit, and Liam Booth-Smith, then a Treasury special adviser and now Rishi Sunak’s Downing Street chief of staff.
A third group, called “CMO/CSA/No 10/Taskforce”, was formed in August 2020. It included Whitty, Vallance, Case, Cummings, Cain and Henry Cook, an adviser whose unredacted correspondence the Cabinet Office is also refusing to hand to the inquiry.
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*the same Lord Bethell who replaced his phone before it could be investigated for shenanigans regarding PPE contracts
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ld-be-searched
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