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Boris Johnson’s justification for his “let it rip”, “bodies pile high” remarks in summer and autumn of 2020 is that he was the “sole” voice of the British people challenging his scientific advisers’ recommendations for lockdown and other social restrictions. He was the people’s…

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The glaring contradiction in Johnson’s testimony this morning is he accepted scientific advice that locking down vulnerable older people alone would not work, and rejected that policy, but in September he thought a regional approach of tiered lockdowns would work, and therefore…

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The problem with billionaires, football money, should Abu Dhabi own Telegraph, can Body Shop be saved - new ⁦The Rest Is Money⁩ podcast. ⁦Steph McGovern⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

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Johnson says he kept Hancock in place because he could not be confident he could find anyone better. “I had a health secretary who was able…Whatever his defects”

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Johnson says he has telephoned Helen McNamara to apologise to her for not calling out Cummings’s toxic remarks about her which were sent to him on WhatsApp

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Johnson refusing to confirm the evidence of his private secretary Martin Reynolds that he as PM had lost confidence in his cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill. Very odd that he won't take responsibility for decisions his colleagues say he made (this one communicated to Sedwill on 14…

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Vallance records the Covid decision-making committee CovidS as deciding to help Manchester more than Liverpool because Manchester's metro mayor Burnham was seen to be more co-operative than his Liverpool opposite number. That won't go down well with Liverpudlians who - for years…

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Johnson seems to be saying it is both a good and bad idea for a UK pm to meet regularly with first ministers of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Confusing, to put it mildly

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In May 2020, Johnson wanted to release from lockdown faster than his scientific advisers wanted, to “divert from the DC [Cummings] fiasco”, says Vallance in diaries.

In May 2020, Johnson wanted to release from lockdown faster than his scientific advisers wanted, to “divert from the DC [Cummings] fiasco”, says Vallance in diaries. #covidenquiry
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On 28 March 2020, just four days after full lockdown, Boris Johnson was still expressing uncertainty about whether his government had been right to take “these extraordinary steps”.

On 28 March 2020, just four days after full lockdown, Boris Johnson was still expressing uncertainty about whether his government had been right to take “these extraordinary steps”.
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Boris Johnson says his meeting on 19 March 2020 with Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev - who was to become Lord Lebedev in July 2020 - “must have been” about Covid, though he can’t actually remember what it was about

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A propos of Braverman’s imminent statement, a senior minister just told me he’d heard more letters of no confidence in Rishi Sunak had gone in from Tory right MPs. I can’t believe they want a fourth PM in this parliament. But we live in weird bonkers times.

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As we were. Progress on the “Rwanda is safe” bill seems to have speeded up again - so we may now see it tomorrow or even today

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“We are underestimating the pace and contagiousness of the disease” says PM of the early days of Covid19

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It would be fair to say of me, the Whitehall establishment…” failed to appreciate the speed of transmission, gravity of danger and so on

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“I think that what really happened was outside our living experience”. Johnson’s explanation of why government in its entirety was too slow to protect the UK from Covid19

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“My instructions to him [Hancock] were to keep me posted”. Boris Johnson on his involvement in managing the looming Covid crisis during February.

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