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Dominic Cummings to appear before MPs in first public appearance since leaving No 10

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1818300.html

Dominic Cummings is set to appear before MPs in his first public appearance since leaving Downing Street.

Wednesday morning will see the former top aide to the Prime Minister be interrogated by the Commons Science and Technology Committee.

Mr Cummings will give evidence on the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (Aria) – an independent body that he is regarded as the designer of – after concerns have been raised over a lack of transparency.

Launched just four weeks ago, Aria is backed by £800 million – as set out by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the March 2020 budget – to fund “high-risk research” and to support “the most inspiring inventors to turn their transformational ideas into new technologies, discoveries, products and services” according to the UK government.

The government also describes the agency as having “a much higher tolerance for failure than is normal”, stating that “freedom to fail is often also the freedom to succeed”.

Mr Cummings will be appearing before the Commons Science and Technology Committee, which is comprised of cross-bench Members of Parliament, and will be discussing these issues of transparency.
Will the Dome evade, prevaricate or obfuscate .....
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17-03-2021, 11:30 AM
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All 3, no doubt. Wonder what he has been doing with himself over the past few months.
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Dominic Cummings brands government's Covid PPE contracts an 'absolute total disaster'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...ments-23744267

Boris Johnson's former top aide fired a devastating shot today at the scramble to get personal protective equipment (PPE) four months after he walked out of No10 in a bitter civil war.

He branded the Department of Health a "smoking ruin" that couldn't be trusted to buy up prospective vaccines last year. And appearing to back an inquiry, he said Parliament should have an “urgent, very very hard look into what went wrong and why”.

It is a direct attack on Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, who just weeks ago claimed there was not a shortage of PPE in the first wave of the pandemic.

Mr Cummings told MPs on the Science and Technology Committee: "I and others said repeatedly before 2020 this system is an expensive disaster zone and when it hits a crisis it will completely fall over. That system hit a crisis, and it completely fell over." He added the Department of Health "had an absolute disaster in terms of buying - how it buys, procures, how it deals with science and technology. It's why we had to take the vaccines process out of the Department of Health".

Mr Cummings said Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Patrick Vallance suggested setting up a separate task force to procure vaccines, which was overseen by Tory ally Kate Bingham. “To do that we had to take it out of the Department of Health", he said, and “strip away all the normal nonsense”.

In a brutal attack on Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Mr Cummings added: “In Spring 2020 you had a situation where the Department for Health was just a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE and all of that.”

Yet despite a furious row about contracts handed to Tory cronies, Mr Cummings claimed there should have been fewer checks and balances - not more.
Well, he would, wouldn't he .....

The Dome is completely amoral where the taxpayer's money is concerned .....
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17-03-2021, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Omah ->
Dominic Cummings brands government's Covid PPE contracts an 'absolute total disaster'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...ments-23744267



Well, he would, wouldn't he .....

The Dome is completely amoral where the taxpayer's money is concerned .....
Cummings is right, checks and balances slow things down and increase the risk to safety.

As usual the left can't handle common sense.
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Hi

Cummings blasted the Government.
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17-03-2021, 05:24 PM
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Hi

Cummings blasted the Government.
Good for him, he has been doing it for years and finally exposed the civil service for the beurocratic nightmare it has always been.

He even went so far as pushing the Department of Health to one side and setting up a new lean version which got the job done in the pandemic as far as PPE and vaccines was concerned.

Thank you Dominic Cummings
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Originally Posted by bread ->
good for him, he has been doing it for years and finally exposed the civil service for the beurocratic nightmare it has always been.

He even went so far as pushing the department of health to one side and setting up a new lean version which got the job done in the pandemic as far as ppe and vaccines was concerned.

Thank you dominic cummings
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17-03-2021, 08:04 PM
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Flustered Matt Hancock slaps back at Dominic Cummings

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-service.html

Matt Hancock insisted the UK's vaccine drive is a 'team effort' tonight after Dominic Cummings swiped it has only succeeded because he was stripped of control.

Mr Hancock tried to shrug off the savage blow at a Downing Street briefing tonight, praising the 'esprit de corps' between the 'absolutely brilliant' task force and the NHS.

'It has been a huge team effort,' he said, looking uncomfortable and adding he would 'leave it at that' rather than engaging directly with Mr Cummings' criticism.

However, the jibes are highly damaging after Mr Hancock played up his role in the surging vaccine drive - which has now covered nearly half the population and already appears to be dramatically reducing deaths.

The Cabinet minister was heavily criticised over shortages of PPE and failure to ramp up testing in the early stages of the crisis. He has also come under fire for ignoring transparency rules while rushing out contracts to 'cronies'.
Mr Hancock has put himself at the front of the rollout, taking numerous press conferences to highlight milestones in the process.
Hancock may not have much of a personality but he's got himself a high public - is he aspiring to a higher post .....

If all his failures are eventually published then his chances are slim .....
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17-03-2021, 08:49 PM
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Flustered Matt Hancock slaps back at Dominic Cummings

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-service.html



Hancock may not have much of a personality but he's got himself a high public - is he aspiring to a higher post .....

If all his failures are eventually published then his chances are slim .....
I've not seen any.
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17-03-2021, 09:28 PM
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Cummings is right, checks and balances slow things down and increase the risk to safety.

As usual the left can't handle common sense.
I thought the PPE scandal was down to a lack of checks and balances.
 
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