Covid inquiry: Dominic Cummings confronted over 'misogynistic' texts

DOMINIC Cummings has denied being a misogynist after he was confronted over a text he sent about a female colleague saying he wanted to “handcuff her and escort her” out of Downing Street.

Cummings wrote: “If I have to come back to Helen’s bullshit with – designed to waste huge amounts of my time so I can’t spend it on other stuff – I will personally handcuff her and escort her from the building. Counsel to the Inquiry Hugo Keith KC asked Cummings that he “denigrated women” and “denigrated Helen McNamara” by sending her a misogynistic message.“I was much ruder about men than I was about Helen.

He said the outbursts about MacNamara were in response to Johnson’s failure to sack her despite his intention to do so, which Cummings said had caused tension in Downing Street. He revealed that on the week beginning March 9 2020, he heard colleagues having phone calls about whether councils could use ice rinks as temporary morgues as he realised he was living through a “historic catastrophes”.“By the 11th my view was, I’ve got an appalling feeling that I’m in one of those historic catastrophes, like July 1914. I’ve got a lot of smart people coming to me saying a) the fundamentally the strategy is wrong, misconceived, but also at a practical level.

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