The Role of Advisers and Dysfunction Within the Cabinet

This chapter of the podcast episode features testimony from several senior ministers in the Cabinet at the time. They discuss the centralization of power within the Cabinet, particularly by the Prime Minister's senior adviser, Dominic Cummings. It is revealed that many key decisions were being made by Cummings rather than the Prime Minister, which caused dysfunction within the number 10 operation. However, there is a conflicting view from former Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabb, who denies that this was a recognized problem.