This @thesundaytimes piece on Johnson's nonchalance towards the coronavirus crisis is utterly damning, and ought to be a resigning matter.
He skipped 5 cobra meetings, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c…
He skipped 5 cobra meetings, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c…
Here's one excerpt from @JCalvertST @Arbuthnott and @Jonathan__Leake's Sunday Times Insight piece detailing the extraordinary nonchalance of Boris Johnson as the coronavirus spread around the UK in January to March. 
The UK's last rehearsal for a pandemic, #ExerciseCygnus in 2016, predicted the NHS would collapse and highlighted a long list of shortcomings — including a lack of PPE and intensive care ventilators. But none of the recommendations to address these deficiencies was implemented.
As early as 3 February, Boris Johnson had decided 66 million Brits could take it on the chin.
It appears he'd decided that keeping the economy open and maintaining the ability to trade freely was more important than protecting us from coronavirus (@ 23')
It appears he'd decided that keeping the economy open and maintaining the ability to trade freely was more important than protecting us from coronavirus (@ 23')
"Bizarre autarkic rhetoric" - a transcript of what Boris Johnson said about the #coronavirus pandemic in his staggering, Brexit-celebrating, 3 February speech in Greenwich
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As the government let coronavirus spread rapidly through the population, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings were obsessing about Brexit, free trade and emasculating the civil service. The last thing on their minds was draconian action to slow the pandemic. theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Imperial's Prof David Nabarro says governments worldwide were given a stark warning of how serious the situation would become on 30 January. Ignorance of the danger that was coming can be no excuse. Yet Johnson didn't announce a lockdown until 23 March. theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Six areas of failure: why the response of Boris Johnson's government to the coronavirus pandemic is proving so disastrous theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/a…
