Cummings lambasts Johnson in damning account of Covid crisis

Ousted aide says failure to grasp situation meant tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die'

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Boris Johnson is unfit to be prime minister after presiding over a chaotic and incompetent pandemic response that caused many thousands of unnecessary deaths, his former chief aide Dominic Cummings claimed in an excoriating attack.

In a seven-hour hearing before MPs in Westminster, Cummings gave a damning account of the government's approach, laying much of the blame on Johnson and the health secretary, Matt Hancock.