"It's not coincidental the vaccine programme worked the way that it did," he said.
"You had serious problems with the funding bureaucracy for therapeutics, that was the kind of context for it. Mr Cummings, who masterminded the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum, has also told the committee that"one of the most obvious lessons" of the COVID crisis was the government should"go to extreme lengths to try to de-bureaucratise the normal system".
Mr Cummings was also quizzed about the government's plans for a new"high-risk, high-reward" scientific agency he had spearheaded while in Downing Street. is modelled on America's long-running Advanced Research Projects Agency . After he left Downing Street in November last year amid a bitter power struggle between Number 10 staff, it was revealed he hadBut Mr Cummings told MPs that"media reports about me getting a pay rise after COVID are wrong".
Responding to Mr Cummings's evidence to the committee, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said:"This is a scathing intervention from Boris Johnson's former right hand man and most trusted aide.
Does he mean it's been a big team effort for all their failures 😂