Dominic Cummings has attacked Matt Hancock for the "smoking ruin" of PPE procurement at the start of the Covid pandemic, suggesting Number 10 had to take control of the vaccine programme as a result. 

In his first public appearance since his dramatic departure from Downing Street late last year, Boris Johnson's former chief aide told MPs that the department was an "absolute total disaster in terms of buying - how it buys, procures".

Mr Cummings also attacked the "shade of bureaucracy" that runs all the way through Whitehall and the Treasury was "driving everyone completely insane".

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/03/17/boris-johnson-news-eu-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-sarah-everard/

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