In yet another day of damning revelations at the Covid-19 inquiry, Britain’s top civil servant at the start of the pandemic lifted the lid on the “feral” atmosphere in Downing Street that led to him calling for Matt Hancock to be sacked.
But Mark Sedwill, the former cabinet secretary, denied his own tenure had been a failure for his inability to curb the worst aspects of Boris Johnson’s “brutal and useless” premiership.
Sedwill was a key player in implementing the first national lockdown and also held the posts of head of the civil service and national security adviser between 2018 and 2020.
