WhatsApp messages from 2020 released by the Covid inquiry have revealed senior civil servant Simon Case complaining about the influence of Carrie, the partner of then-PM Boris Johnson.
He later adds: "I was always told that Dom was the secret PM. How wrong they are. I look forward to telling select tomorrow... don't worry about Dom, the real person in charge is Carrie."Mr Cain agrees and adds that "she doesn't know she is talking about either". Mr Case was a senior civil servant in No 10 until September 2020 when he was promoted to be head of the civil service.
Mr Keith KC warned the inquiry that "due caution must be applied to the accuracy of WhatsApps which lack nuance and can be intemperate, and also diary entries, which may not accurately reflect the reality of the position day by day and which indeed may have been drafted for a different audience.