Former deputy cabinet secretary tells Covid inquiry Hancock’s plans never materialised despite assurances
O’Connor asks about the “extremely crude” language used at No 10. He says the inquiry heard this yesterday. MacNamara says: There was definitely a toxic culture. Q: Did Dominic Cummings contribute to that? MacNamara says she wants to address the comments Cummings made about her that were revealed yesterday.
She says that PM had offered her a number of permanent secretary jobs to get her out of the Cabinet Office, and she had objected to going, because she did not want to participate in something that would lead to a civil service colleague being forced out to make way for her. As regards Cummings’s messages, she says they were “horrible to read” and “both suprising and not suprising”. Cummings was frustrated with her at the time, she says.
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