"In an early phone call with Joe Biden, an aide told me, Johnson said he disliked the phrase special relationship after the president used it. To Johnson it seemed needy and weak."
I used the example of Aberfan in a thread (which I will link at the end of this) in trying to imagine the scale of deaths from this pandemic in the UK
But now I want to turn to the words of a politician from that time.
"There is, too, a far greater bond in this disaster than any party political affiliation could indicate. All of us who are here felt with the people at Aberfan that day. "
"It is disastrous enough to lose a child—I think it is the greatest disaster that can befall any family—but to lose a child in that way was so terrible that words can hardly express how we felt. "