The departmental board members are supposed to be recruited through ‘fair and transparent competition’ and come ‘primarily from the commercial private sector, with experience of managing complex organisations’.

He suggested ‘these goddamn plans should already exist’, adding: ‘At the moment I think we are negligently killing the most vulnerable who we are supposed to be shielding and I am extremely worried about it.’

“Google must be held accountable for harming small businesses and consumers,” Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, one of the lawsuit’s leaders, said in a statement. “It must stop using its monopolistic power and hyper-dominant market position to unlawfully leverage billions of added dollars from smaller companies, competitors and consumers beyond what should be paid.”

In total, attorneys general for 36 states and DC will join the new suit, which is being led by Utah, North Carolina, Tennessee, New York, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa and Nebraska, according to Politico. A heavily redacted copy of the lawsuit (see below) was filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

In a letter to the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, published today, Lord Pickles said: ‘Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee’s advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.

The suit focuses on the 30% fee Google charges developers for selling digital goods and services via the Play Store. As of July 1, that fee dropped to 15% until developers hit $1 million in revenue for the year. The new lawsuit, reported earlier by Politico, mirrors one filed last year against Google by Epic Games, developer of the popular battle royale game Fortnite.

In the shared Whatsapp message, Mr Cummings asks the PM to put the Department of Health’s ‘plan for using testing to suppress infections in hospitals and care homes’ over the subsequent three to six months on the agenda for a meeting the next day.

Dominic Cummings has been warned he may have breached rules on senior officials taking up paid work after leaving government by setting up a blog lifting the lid on the inner workings of Downing Street.

‘Since arriving in Portugal, I miss the magic that comes with adventures, but I’ve also been focusing on the positives of stillness — digging into the landscape, watching the details of the season change.’

Caroline Russell, the lawyer leading the probe, is said to have pointed out that Birley has been a trustee for almost ten years when it’s considered best practice to hold such roles for six or seven. Goldsmith has been in post for eight.

Birley has pictures of the creatures from Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent all over his Mayfair private members’ club, 5 Hertford Street, even though he was mauled by a tiger there as a child, leaving him permanently scarred.

“We don’t impose the same restrictions as other mobile operating systems do,” Wilson White, Google’s senior director of public policy, wrote in a blog post. “So, it’s strange that a group of state attorneys general chose to file a lawsuit attacking a system that provides more openness and choice than others.”

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Acoba is supposed to vet appointments taken by former ministers and senior officials, but Lord Pickles, a former minister himself, said Mr Cummings had failed to seek their advice before launching the project. 

In a letter to the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, published today, Lord Pickles said: ‘I understand that Mr Cummings has made an application via the Cabinet Office to the committee for consideration.