The Covid inquiry testimony is an eviscerating indictment of Boris Johnson and a stain on the reputation of his enablers
‘The people who were in the room are giving detailed and compelling evidence of how utterly unfit he was to be prime minister.’‘The people who were in the room are giving detailed and compelling evidence of how utterly unfit he was to be prime minister.’f a government looks bad from the outside, it will be twice as rotten on the inside.
Johnson himself complains it has turned into “a totally disgusting orgy of narcissism”, which is like Caligula moaning that he can’t stand the sight of blood When the country most needed a decent, diligent and decisive prime minister, we had a derelict at the helm. The testimony is an eviscerating indictment of Mr Johnson and an indelible stain on the reputation of everyone in the Tory party and its media who enabled him. It is no less damning about the structures that are supposed to be in place to protect the country from such a terrible prime minister.
The two most important officials in the life of a prime minister are his principal private secretary and the cabinet secretary. If Martin Reynolds, the private secretary, had been performing his role appropriately he would have insisted to the prime minister that everyone in Number 10 had to be extremely careful to ensure they were strictly adhering to the Covid laws and regulations that they were imposing on the nation to contain a deadly disease.
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