Case was Downing Street Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from May to September 2020.[
One more reason to be utterly disgusted by the current witch-hunt:
From the National in May 2024:
NICOLA Sturgeon was showing the Tory government “how to do it” during the Covid pandemic, according to WhatsApp messages sent by the UK’s most senior civil servant. Simon Case, who as cabinet secretary oversees the work of the UK’s entire civil service, made the comments in April 2020 just weeks after the first lockdown, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard.
Case was giving evidence to the inquiry on Thursday when the WhatsApps were revealed. In a conversation with former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara, Case lamented the state of the UK Government’s Covid response.
“It is awful,” Case – who at the time was a top adviser to Boris Johnson – wrote.
“This is how strategy advice is being developed – not a single expert involved in the conversation.”
He said it was an “appalling sight [if] you vaguely believe in evidence-based government.”
MacNamara said she was “really worried”, saying that the “last straw” for her had been when someone floated the idea of doing lockdown differently in some areas in order to secretly assess the strengths of different approaches. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24341858.simon-case-nicola-sturgeon-showed-tories-how-it-pandemic/
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But, the media were largely hostile to lockdown and the other measures to control COVID and Case can be derided as a ‘mandarin’, so they will continue their baleful witch hunting.
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