Wednesday briefing: What Boris Johnson’s closest advisers had to say for themselves at the Covid inquiry

In today’s newsletter: Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain gave evidence at Dorland House on Tuesday – what did they reveal?• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Today we’re headed to the Covid inquiry, which is increasingly revealing staggering – and foulmouthed (you’ve been warned) – insights into how Boris Johnson and his advisers handled the outbreak of the pandemic.Those who were once closest to the former prime minister have revealed Johnson was referred to as “the trolley” by “pretty much everyone” due to the inconsistency of his decision making and that he described coronavirus as “just nature’s way of dealing with old people”.Israel-Hamas war | Israeli airstrikes destroyed apartment blocks and killed dozens of people at a refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to the Hamas regime, as the UN said the conflict had become a “graveyard” for children.Transport | Plans to close railway station ticket offices in England have been scrapped in a government U-t