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This is the best summary I could come up with:
WhatsApp messages released by the inquiry show Dominic Cummings, who at the time was chief of staff to the PM, wrote a day after the meeting that he still didn't think Mr Johnson was convinced of the severity of the situation.
Sir Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, told the inquiry last month that it initially looked like the public were firmly adhering to the measures.
WhatsApp messages and extracts from the diaries of Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, have made it clear that there were bitter divisions within government during 2020.
And in one of the most memorable exchanges of the inquiry so far, Mr Cummings was read WhatsApp messages he sent, saying he wanted to "personally handcuff" senior government official Helen MacNamara "and escort her from the building".
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, who was deputy chief medical officer in the pandemic, told the inquiry he only learnt about Eat Out to Help Out from a TV report, adding it "didn't feel very sensible to me".
Ethnic minority groups were disproportionately affected by both the virus and restrictions, said Prof James Nazroo, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, but Mr Johnson's government was not tuned into this.
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