Helen MacNamara, who served as deputy cabinet secretary, made the claim to the Covid inquiry.

This blameless piece of equipment has been dragged through the mud at the Covid inquiry. How dare anyone compare it to our former prime minister?

COVID-19 inquiry hears latest claim from Johnson’s aide-turned-nemesis Dominic Cummings.

Former adviser tells inquiry of ‘low point’ in pandemic response, saying then-PM was ‘extremely distracted’

RAF chief offers ‘unreserved apologies’ over ‘widespread and normalised’ behaviour, particularly to women who complained

Former top official Helen MacNamara tells Covid inquiry women were sidelined in male-dominated No 10.

A civil servant who sounded the alarm about the impact of COVID said the Boris Johnson government had a "bullish" attitude in the early days of the pandemic and were even "laughing at the Italians".

Helen MacNamara has suggested the government’s focus on Brexit ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic was one of the matters that put the UK on the “back foot”. The former top civil servant also claimed that Boris Johnson’s “monomaniacal focus” w ...

Helen MacNamara hit back at Dominic Cummings’s sexist rants – condemnng the ‘toxic macho culture’ at No 10 where women were overlooked

Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s former chief adviser, made a series of claims in his witness statement handed to the UK Covid-19 inquiry.

A former civil servant has said that Matt Hancock displayed “nuclear levels” of overconfidence and pretended to be a cricketer batting off challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. Helen MacNamara, who served as deputy cabinet secretary, told t ...

Former deputy cabinet secretary describes misogyny, lack of planning and over-confidence in government’s pandemic response

It is the latest damning piece of evidence about Mr Hancock’s stewardship of the Department for Health during the pandemic given to the official Covid probe

Former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara told the Covid inquiry she profoundly regretted her ‘misjudgment’ in the partygate scandal.

The Covid inquiry has hosted a parade of men who assure us they’re experts in everything – except their own incompetence, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Helen MacNamara, deputy cabinet secretary during the crisis, says former PM did not understand basic science behind disease

The Covid inquiry is hearing about people in Downing Street during the pandemic who helped the government make decisions

Chris Mason looks ahead to former top civil servant Helen MacNamara's testimony at the Covid inquiry.

Dominic Cummings ranted at the then-PM in a series of missives as their relationship disintegrated, warning that the government was being consumed by 'mayhem'.

Scotland's deputy first minister says the unredacted information will be handed to the UK Covid inquiry.