D-Day is finally here. Like the rest of SW1, Mr S will be tuning into Dominic Cummings’s appearance at a Commons joint committee later today. Kick off is 9:30 a.m. with four hours of theatrics expected to focus on his criticisms of the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic. The political editor of ITV Robert Peston revealed yesterday that the former chief special adviser will ‘not pull his punches’ and claim Johnson said ‘Covid is only killing 80-year-olds’ when justifying a delayed lockdown in the autumn.
Now the impeccably connected Simon Walters goes further in previewing what Cummings will say this morning. Walters – whose reporting on the Downing Street renovation has caused Johnson many headaches in recent months – writes in the Daily Mail that Cummings has a number of fresh revelations to make. These include the claim that Boris Johnson said repeatedly he would be willing to be infected with Covid on live TV in order to reassure the public, saying on multiple occasions ‘I’m going to get Chris Whitty to inject me with it live on national TV so everyone can see it’s nothing to be scared of.’
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