johnson john hall has worn out from london. what we have now though is this extraordinary volley of tweets released on saturday night by dominant comics more than 40 of them alleging, and serial government incompetence delays in following scientific and medical advice. the lack of a proper plan and so on. the central claim here is that in the early months of 2020, it was according to cummings government policy to fall to allow the virus to spread through the population in the hope of achieving so called heard immunity by september. that some of the government has repeatedly denied. indeed they've denied it again on sunday. cummings describes those denials as lies. he said that it was only when it was pointed out to the government that this policy would result in catastrophe that he fell back on a plan b, a notion to suppress the virus through locked downs and on that point of lockdown, he goes further. he mentioned by name, people like health secretary, mat hancock and others. when he writes this, if we'd had the right preparat

cummings himself was ousted from downing street last year and had rumors of a rift with bar johnson. john hall has worn out from london. what we have now though is this extraordinary volley of tweets released on saturday night by dominant comics more than 40 of them alleging, and serial government incompetence delays in following scientific medical advice. the lack of a proper plan and so on. the central claim here is that in the early months of 2020, it was according to cummings government policy to fall to allow the virus to spread through the population in the hope of achieving so called heard immunity by september. that some of the government has repeatedly denied. indeed they've denied it again on sunday. cummings describes those denials as lies. he said that it was only when it was pointed out to the government that this policy would result in catastrophe that he fell back on a plan b. notion to suppress the virus through lockdown. and on that point of lockdown, he goes further. he mentioned by name, people like health secretary, mat hancock and others. when he writes this, if we'd had t

dominic cummings admitted that he and other officials acted too late, and he had boys johnson most responsible. john hall reports from london. once all powerful as chief advisors to the prime minister, now exposing the governments of pandemic failures, tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die. dominant. cummings began with contrition. senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisors like me, fell disasters shores of the standards. the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this. when the public needs this most, the government failed. he described a government in chaos. a prime minister, he said unfit for the job, but the p. m just wouldn't do what we, what we advice about wasn't necessarily, i couldn't persuade other people and lots of things. everybody was screaming on quarantine, have a policy, and set it out clearly and stick to it. we cannot keep changing your mind every time telegraph fletcher that it's already on the subject, nobody could find a way around the problem of the problem is that just like a shopping trolley smashing from one side to the other f

independence referendum if it wins a majority despite the british prime minister boris johnson saying he won't allow it john hallhas this update from edinburgh. well a number of constituency seats due to declare on friday include some that the scottish national party nicholas sturgeon's party must win if they are to improve their position in the holyrood parliament behind me shy of an outright majority going in to this election and remember it is that focused on a majority a majority for independence that is really the point of this election the big thing to watch in this election whether the s. and p. wins a democratic mandate for independence that nicolas sturgeon will then use to take to westminster to demand a 2nd independence referendum referendum for boris johnson some of the prime minister has said he will stand in the way of there was a referendum remember in 2014 lost by the pro independent side by a 10 point margin since then we've had bricks it something that a majority of scots voted against they see that their country is being taken out of the e.u. essentially against its will and the only way back

it wins a majority despite british prime minister boris johnson saying he won't allow it we have 2 correspondents covering the elections john hall isn't at the breaux we'll speak to him in just a moment but 1st let's go to joining us from hard pool so quite a win for the conservatives there. certainly was in the end it wasn't even close the conservative candidate got nearly twice as many votes as the labor opposition candidate here and that's a pretty significant win for the conservatives they have not be in power here in heart a poll since the seat was created back in the mid seventy's and going back even that so for labor although it is tempting to read lots into election results perhaps more than they deserve this is still a big blow it shows that you know even 2 years off to the morning that they got in the 2019 general election when the conservatives flipped lots of seats in this so-called red wall which is one brick in that wall it's there this belt of 4 industrial constituencies in the north of england for a long time voted votes of labor in 2019 lots of those change over to the conservatives and labor is still really ble