Lee Cain
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 43 |
| Date of birth | January 1,1981 |
| Education | Ormskirk Grammar School |
| Staffordshire University | |
| Previous position | Downing Street Director of Communications (2019–2020) |
| Prime minist | Boris Johnson |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2531304 |
Lee Cain Life story
Lee Edward Cain is a British public relations professional and former journalist who served as Downing Street Director of Communications under Boris Johnson from July 2019 until the end of 2020.
Boris Johnson to apologise to Covid Inquiry but say he got big calls right
... His former director of communications, Lee Cain, said the pandemic, describing dither and delay...
Covid inquiry: Michael Gove defends Boris Johnson over lockdown decision-making
... In previous testimony, some of Mr Johnson s most senior advisers - including Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain - have characterised the former prime minister as indecisive and liable to change his mind...
Covid inquiry: What has Sir Patrick Vallance said in his diaries?
... Sir Patrick says communications chiefs Lee Cain and James Slack plus civil servant Martin Reynolds tried to convince them, but they managed to avoid doing it in the end...
Covid Inquiry: Boris Johnson referred to Treasury as 'pro-death squad'
... The inquiry was later shown a series of WhatsApp messages sent in September and October 2020 between then Downing Street director of communications Lee Cain and Ben Warner - a data scientist hired by Dominic Cummings after working on the 2016 Vote Leave campaign...
Covid inquiry: Key points from Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain evidence
...On Tuesday, the Covid Inquiry heard evidence from two of Boris Johnson s key advisers at the height of the pandemic - Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain...
Boris Johnson thought old people should accept Covid fate, inquiry told
... Lee Cain, No 10 s former communications director, said the pandemic was the " wrong crisis" for Mr Johnson and he was a " challenging character to work with" because he kept changing his mind...
Covid inquiry: Read the private WhatsApp messages from inside Downing Street
... In a message to No 10 communications director Lee Cain, he said Mr Johnson " doesn t think it s a big deal" and " it ll be like swine flu" another virus which spread across the world in 2009, killing more than 450 people in the UK but not prompting a major public health crisis...
Covid inquiry WhatsApps paint picture of chaos
... And there is plenty more to come - Boris Johnson s former director of communications, Lee Cain, and his former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings...
Covid inquiry WhatsApps paint picture of chaos
By Chris MasonPolitical editor, BBC News
Shambolic dysfunction in Downing Street, with thousands upon thousands of lives At Stake .
That is The Claim , to The Covid inquiry, from some of those who worked very closely alongside Boris Johnson during The pandemic.
They are painting a picture of chaos, and of a Prime Minister they claim was temperamentally unsuited to The scale of The Challenge The pandemic confronted him with.
We will see how Mr Johnson and others respond to this in The Coming weeks.
This inquiry is giving us a look into The workings of government, with The bonnet up. And, bluntly, it is not a pretty sight: a health emergency, The liberty and education of millions curtailed, The economic future of The country on The Line too.
Learning lessons afterwards is what a public inquiry is all About - and The UK, in Modern Times , had never been confronted with anything like Covid-19.
For those of us pouring over The Evidence now gushing towards us, there is a clear risk of Hindsight Bias . We know now what came next; we didn't - and they didn't - know then.
What stands out to me So Far is a combination of factors which affords us a unique and Real Time rolling insight into The Moods , whims, frustrations and anger of key players at The Time .
The pandemic, with its need for social distance, coincided with a written communications Tool - Whatsapp - Becoming a mainstream platform for communication.
But not just any communication: an informal, minute-by-minute written down substitution for what might otherwise have been said out loud ad-libbed remarks, lost to The ether moments after their utterance.
Instead, as patchy as it might be in The places, we get a glimpse of The tone and mood of senior figures, and not just their point of view.
It is often many of The things many of us can be some of The Time : unvarnished, crude and shorn of The usual gloss applied to communications for public consumption.
And it's fascinating. We Are getting a sense of The organisational oddities, human failings and frailties, and decision making processes of those who fate chose to be in positions of power when The pandemic struck - and so compelled to make decisions of a magnitude none of them can have anticipated ever having to make.
And there is plenty more to Come - Boris Johnson 's former director of communications, Lee Cain , and his former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings .
All of this matters, for three reasons: The accountability of individuals; The lessons future governments can learn; and, also, The implications for The politics of today.
Because after we have heard from The Downing Street advisers, it will be The Turn , before Christmas, to hear from The politicians.
Yes, Boris Johnson , but also, too, Rishi Sunak - The chancellor then, The Prime Minister now.
The electorate will be reminded now of events then, and decisions then, which he took.
And a final thought: given The unprecedented scale of what confronted The government then, how much of The Chaos We Are now getting a glimpse of would have been likely under any Prime Minister , or collection of senior individuals in government?
And how much was a direct consequence of Boris Johnson , Rishi Sunak , Dominic Cummings and others, and The relationships between them?
It is A Question that will always be - to a great extent - unanswerable.
But it is one worth keeping in mind as The Inquiry progresses.
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