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Dominic Cummings warned that ministerial negligence was 'killing the most vulnerable' in care homes at the height of the pandemic last year, he revealed today, raising more questions about the conduct of Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
As Mr Hancock was facing calls to resign or be fired today over an affair with an aide, Mr Cummings, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, dropped yet more behind-the-scenes evidence from his time in No10.
Writing on the micro-publishing website Substack he released a screenshot of a WhatsApp message from May last year in which he voiced concerns about testing people moving from NHS hospitals to care homes.
He has already accused Mr Hancock of claiming that everyone was being tested before being sent to homes - when they were not - something that the Health Secretary has denied.
The failure to test everyone leaving NHS hospitals for care facilities has been blamed for the high rate of deaths there among mainly elderly and vulnerable residents.
In the shared Whatsapp message, Mr Cummings asks the PM to put the Department of Health's 'plan for using testing to suppress infections in hospitals and care homes' over the subsequent
