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...Johnson said her proposed change would bring England and Wales into line with countries including France, Ireland, Canada and Australia....
...Boris Johnson has defended the introduction of a lockdown in March 2020, saying it was “right to throw everything at it” as he was “out of time”....
...Speaking on Wednesday, Johnson said he believed it was his duty as prime minister to “test” the “completely novel policy” of imposing restrictions on the public....
...Boris Johnson compared long Covid with “Gulf war syndrome”, the UK Covid-19 inquiry heard on Wednesday....
...Johnson did not order a lockdown until March 23, 2020....
...Among the most serious questions facing former prime minister Boris Johnson at the UK Covid-19 inquiry is the suggestion he ordered the first national lockdown too late....
...Last month, it heard that senior advisers to Johnson recommended the move on March 14....
...Vallance added Johnson argued for a “let the virus rip” approach in meetings....
...Former Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson promised to “fix” the crisis in social care once and for all when he was elected Conservative party leader in 2019....
...The UK government’s flagship “Eat Out to Help Out” restaurant discount scheme in the summer of 2020 was not presented to Boris Johnson as “a gamble”, the former prime minister has told the public inquiry...
...Before Boris Johnson began giving evidence, Covid-19 inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett expressed concern over press reports in recent days that detailed the contents of his witness statement and what...
...“Can I just say how glad I am to be at this inquiry and how sorry I am for the pain and the loss and the suffering of the Covid victims,” Johnson said....
...Johnson has been prepared for his two days of evidence by Brian Altman KC....
...Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said: “The rather bizarre method of withdrawing child benefit from high-income families is in need of reform, and the changes coming...
...Boris Johnson has conceded to the Covid-19 inquiry that mass sporting events should have been shut down in mid- March 2020.Some 250,000 people attended the four-day Cheltenham festival that finished on March...
...In April 2020 Johnson was admitted to hospital with Covid-19 and spent time in intensive care....
...In WhatsApp messages sent in March 2020 and shown to the UK’s public inquiry into Covid on Tuesday, Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson, said there were “big problems...
...Former prime minister Boris Johnson was “not in charge” in the lead-up to the pandemic and allowed his chief adviser Dominic Cummings to “run” the government, former health secretary Sajid Javid has told...
...His diary entry continued to say that Johnson “looked broken” and had “head in hands a lot”....
...Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson, sent messages to former head of communications Lee Cain complaining Johnson had gone “back to Jaws mode wank” and was “saying...
...The UK’s former top civil servant complained Boris Johnson’s administration was “brutal and useless”, the official inquiry into the government’s handling of Covid-19 has heard....
...Reynolds admitted that after Johnson’s 2019 election victory, the leadership’s attention was focused “on other things” including the “divergent politics” between Johnson and Cummings....
...Cain told the Covid inquiry on Tuesday that Johnson “should have done more” in early 2020 as the global crisis started to unfold....
...I mean, it does feel to me that the council is doing quite a good job of countering some of the claims Johnson is making. Laura Hughes Yes, definitely....
...The Covid inquiry has been shown a diary entry from August 2020, in which Britain’s former chief scientific adviser noted a “bonkers set of exchanges” with Boris Johnson, who had appeared “obsessed with...
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