Lions led by donkeys: Cummings uses broad strokes to portray colleagues

Cummings compared data expert to Jeff Goldblum's scientist in the film Independence Day, whose warnings were ignored

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There was little subtlety to Dominic Cummings' testimony before MPs.

In his mind, colleagues were either brilliant or incompetent, with very little in between.