Surely the following is a discarded extract from an Armando Iannucci script turned down as just not plausible:
Mr Cummings painted a vivid picture of the atmosphere in Downing Street on one "crazy" day when the government was considering a national lockdown. On the morning of 12 March, said Mr Cummings, the "national security people came in" and said "Trump wants us to join a bombing campaign in the Middle East tonight" and this "totally derailed" meetings about coronavirus. At the same time, "the prime minister's girlfriend was going completely crackers" over stories in the press about her dog. Part of the building was talking about bombing Iraq, part was talking about household restrictions, and "the prime minister's girlfriend was going completely crackers about something trivial," Mr Cummings told the committee.
Is this the same dog that is chewing up the expensive furniture? The mutt needs to be ennobled.
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