Tag: Covid Inquiry
about 1 month ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Thousands of top-level Stormont text messages reveal officials’ contempt for ministers’ behaviour

The release of thousands of text and WhatsApp messages from some of Stormont’s most senior ministers and civil servan...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Nothing to see here... Sinn Fein closes ranks for a Covid whitewash

Where does real power lie in Sinn Féin? With the leaders we see or the leaders who are unseen? When the UK-wide publi...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

In defence of leaking: Sometimes you have a right to know, and we’ve a duty to tell you

For three weeks, the Covid Inquiry has sat in Belfast to examine Stormont’s response to the pandemic.

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

In full: The 1,000+ DUP WhatsApp messages published and then deleted by the Covid Inquiry

Here are the more than 1,000 internal text messages between some of the DUP's most senior figures which were publishe...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

More than 1,000 high-level DUP messages show party top brass mocking the Catholic Church, laughin...

More than 1,000 internal text messages between the DUP's most senior figures have been published by the Covid Inquiry...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A defiant Arlene Foster confronted with the hapless government over which she presided, admitting...

If anyone in the DUP was getting nostalgic for the days of Arlene Foster's leadership, today might have dispelled the...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Devastating examination of Michelle O’Neill leaves her flapping – and shows her evidence was misl...

Never in her 19-year career as a politician has Michelle O'Neill been as hopelessly at sea about a matter of such pro...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Only after some calculations on a piece of paper over deaths did Swann realise scale of crisis

Health Minister Robin Swann has said he only realised the true scale of the Covid pandemic days before lockdown when ...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Alarmingly, Covid Inquiry isn’t calling key witnesses, with not a single spad or PSNI officer to ...

The Covid Inquiry’s investigation of how Stormont handled the pandemic is now just days away from leaving Belfast, an...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

NIO advised Brandon Lewis to talk up ‘excellent care’ for first NI Covid patient – despite being ...

The Northern Ireland Office advised the Secretary of State to tell the public that Northern Ireland’s first Covid pat...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

We were cruel to ban people from mourning the dead during Covid, says emotional Edwin Poots

A deeply emotional Edwin Poots has said the Executive was "cruel" to ban the public from visiting graveyards during C...

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9 months ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson blamed high Covid cases in Wales on 'singing and obesity', diary claims

An extract from Sir Patrick Vallance's diary from September 2020 appears to show Boris Johnson callously joking about...

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9 months ago
telegraph.co.uk

Covid Inquiry live: Boris Johnson arrives three hours early

Boris Johnson arrived at the Covid Inquiry three hours early on Wednesday morning as he prepared for his two-day evid...

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10 months ago
telegraph.co.uk

Covid Inquiry latest: Scientific advice was treated as 'word of God', says senior civil servant -...

Helen MacNamara has told how Boris Johnson’s Government treated scientific advice like “the word of God” at the start...

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10 months ago
telegraph.co.uk

Covid Inquiry latest: Boris Johnson aide 'used disappearing WhatsApps'

Boris Johnson’s former aide turned on disappearing messages on his own phone during the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry w...

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about 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Lawyers for Boris Johnson and other Covid inquiry witnesses have cost taxpayer £8m so far

The cost of legal representation will include funding the bitter battle between the Cabinet Office and the inquiry ov...

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about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Boris Johnson's Whatsapp messages recovered from old phone

The messages will now be handed over to the Covid inquiry

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about 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Call for new pandemic minister likely as Covid inquiry considers impact of Brexit and austerity

Lady Hallett will chose her words carefully on political 'third rail' issues like leaving the EU and austerity. But a...

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about 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Boris Johnson forgetting password won't prevent access to Covid WhatsApps, security sources say

Four serving and former British intelligence sources say the WhatsApp messages on Boris Johnson’s old phone can still...

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about 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Boris Johnson claims he has forgotten his passcode for locked Covid WhatsApps iPhone

The former prime minister wants the messages to be handed over to the Covid inquiry and has 'nothing to hide', a sour...

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about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Covid inquiry latest: Nicola Sturgeon to give evidence for first time

Nicola Sturgeon will give evidence to the Covid inquiry today on the Scottish Government’s handling of the pandemic.

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about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Covid inquiry latest: 'We will likely never know' origin of virus, says counsel - watch live

The counsel for the Covid inquiry has said “we will likely never know” where Covid came from, as he insisted it “does...

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over 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Politics latest news: Labour on course for 140-seat majority at next election, poll suggests

Labour could be on course to win a majority of more than 140 seats at the next general election, according to the fir...

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