Prime Minister’s former adviser said Johnson dismissed the pandemic as a “scare story” or the new “swine flu” in early 2020 as the global crisis loomed and then had to be persuaded to lock down in March.
In a devastating seven-hour confessional of what went on inside Downing Street last year Cummings claimed Johnson ignored scientific advice when faced with calls for a circuit breaker in September.The rogue confidante the Prime Minister sacked last November reaffirmed a claim that Johnson said he would rather see “bodies pile high” than announce a third lockdown.Cummings apologised to the public, saying that ministers, officials and advisers had fallen “disastrously short” of the standards they should expect in a crisis.He said the Prime.
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