Case has been cabinet secretary — the head of Britain’s impartial bureaucracy, the civil service — since September 2020, making him central to decision-making during the pandemic. Out of government from October 2023 to January on medical leave, Case was excused from giving evidence last fall, but now faces his day under scrutiny at last.
POLITICO compiled five cringe themes from the WhatsApps he’d probably rather forget.
1) He didn’t exactly rate Boris Johnson
It’s fair to say Case’s confidence in his boss Boris Johnson was … mixed at best.
Johnson, he said in one exchange, “changes strategic direction every day.” The ex-prime minister, in Case’s opinion, veered between a “fear” of the virus returning and a “let it rip” mode. At one point Case said Johnson was at “Trump-Bolsonaro levels of mad and dangerous” on Covid.
Case bluntly argued that Johnson “cannot lead” and warned: “The team captain cannot change the call on the big plays every day.”
When putting together a communications strategy for government restrictions, Case lamented that Johnson was “nationally distrusted.” Yikes!
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