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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by grey-area on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:41AM (#26555607)
He lied to the public, repeatedly, in a very obvious way. He was also in that segment being fed softball questions by Aaron Bell, Conservative MP which were probably arranged in advance.

I therefore don't in any way trust his self-assessment of his own department's work and the 'vaccine task force' he set up, which incidentally hired some of his associates, who were paid very well, for example the PR firm:

https://www.ft.com/content/6159d5b7-171c-49ed-b318-144efcc4c...

A director of the public relations firm paid £670,000 to advise the head of the UK government's coronavirus vaccine task force is a longstanding business associate of Dominic Cummings.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by adav on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:18PM (#26561054)
Gosh, that article is incredibly revealing of some serious cronyism going on. It does also, however, confirm that the task force was operating outside of the DoH as per the original point.
Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by grey-area on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:20AM (#26565048)
If you trust what he says about who did what. If you don't, it could mean it operated outside the DoH but actually did very little in the procurement process.
Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by adav on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:49AM (#26565944)
I don’t trust Cummings, I trust the scrutiny of the select committee and the FT journalists.