Johnson’s team ‘laughing at the Italians’ as Covid hit, says Helen MacNamara – video
The former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara told the Covid inquiry that Downing Street officials were overconfident as the pandemic hit and were ‘sitting there’ and ‘laughing at the Italians’ rather than focusing on measures to contain its outbreak. MacNamara said she was concerned at what she described as a ‘jovial tone’ among Johnson’s team about measures to limit the spread of the virus, and was not happy with a view that the ‘Italians were overreacting’. MacNamara said: ‘If we could just tell people what the right and kind and proper thing to do is, people would do that, and sitting there and saying it’s great and sort of laughing at the Italians, it just felt completely, well it felt how it sounds’
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