You could have driven from Westminster to Barnard Castle on Wednesday, and you'd only have been halfway through Dominic Cummings' testimony to MPs by the time you arrived.

Senior advisor turned assassin for seven blockbuster hours Boris Johnson's former right-hand man left

little to the imagination on what life was like inside the heart of government for much of

2020. He dealt blow after blistering blow to his former boss, painting a picture of a

Prime Minister deeply incompetent and obsessed with the wrong things, a health secretary.

He claims lied and lied again and should have been

sat time and time again. And a chaotic government totally out of control, the cost, he said,

tens of thousands of lives. And that was just the morning session. Welcome to the podcast. I'm

Daniel Hewitt. Joining me, as ever, two political hacks who watched the whole seven hours so you don't have to.

Our political

editor, Robert Pestan, how you doing, Robert? Never been better. And our political reporter,

Sheehab Khan. How are you, Sheab? Yeah, not too bad. We'll run through the key moments and issues

in yesterday's seven hour testimony. I'm keen, though, first of all, to get your, both of your

sort of summaries on this extraordinary day, starting with you, Robert.

Well, look, it obviously matters. Dominic Cummings unique in modern political history in respect of the power that he had as an unelected official.

And, you know, the things that in his brief time, you know, one can say he achieved.

You know, he created absolute chaos in government, parliament.

And although that would normally be a bad thing, I think many people would say the chaos

he created led directly to Boris Johnson's landslide election victory because it was chaos

with a purpose, which was chaos to get Brexit done.

And that appeared to sort of stimulate vast numbers of people to vote for the Boris Johnson Tory party to get

Brexit done. So that's a big thing later that I think can be attributed to him. And Boris Johnson

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