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Vaughan Gething, the Welsh health minister during the pandemic, considered Boris Johnson’s handling of key Covid meetings as “scatty, incoherent and rambling”, the inquiry has heard.
Gething made the comment in his written statement to the inquiry, and during the session today (see 4.26pm) Tom Poole, lead counsel for the inquiry, read out an extract. He told Gething:
When Matt Hancock chaired meetings of Cobra there was administrative efficiency and it was a matter of regret that the same could not be said for the meetings chaired by Mr Johnson, who you describe as ‘scatty, incoherent and rambling’.
Gething told the hearing that “the identity [of the chair] really does matter”.
View image in fullscreenVaughan Gething giving evidence to the UK Covid inquiry sitting in Cardiff today. Photograph: UK Covid-19 Inquiry/PAShare34m ago12.26 EDTCovid bereaved accuse former Welsh health minister of incompetence
Bereaved families who lost loved ones to Covid have accused the former Welsh health minister, Vaughan Gething, of incompetence and arrogance after he revealed that all his WhatsApp messages from the time had been lost, Steven Morris reports.
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