MacNamara cannot recall one day when lockdown rules obeyed in No. 10

Helen MacNamara, former deputy cabinet secretary, said she could not recall “one day” when rules were followed at No. 10 during lockdown– and added that hundreds of officials and ministers broke the guidelines.

The former top civil servant told the Covid enquiry on Wednesday 1 November: “I’m certain that there are hundreds of civil servants and potentially ministers who in retrospect think they were the wrong side of that line.”

She also criticised an “absence of humanity” and revealed that No 10 officials were “laughing at the Italians” who were overwhelmed in the early stages of the crisis – with Mr Johnson expressing a breezy confidence about sailing through the pandemic.

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