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Ex-Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is handed peerage despite grovelling apology for Covid WhatsApps branding officials 'feral' and 'pygmies'

Ex-Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is handed peerage despite grovelling apology for Covid WhatsApps branding officials 'feral' and 'pygmies'
Case, who stood down as Cabinet secretary last year after four years, will become a crossbencher former national security adviser Tim Barrow, it has been announced.

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