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Cummings’s testimony shows why we still need zero-Covid
The government is playing Russian roulette with the virus and with people’s lives, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

DOMINIC CUMMINGS’s appearance before a parliamentary select committee was one of those rare occasions when the viewer is left speechless with shock and anger. 

And, even more unusually, this was not because there were any great revelations.  

Cummings simply confirmed all our worst suspicions about how the government handled and continues to handle the pandemic. 

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