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Boris Johnson will speak over two days about his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic when he appears at the public inquiry next week.
The former Prime Minister’s taste for governing at the height of the crisis was harshly criticized by his colleagues running for number 10.
But Johnson is expected to defend his strategy in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak in his testimony on Wednesday and Thursday.
The then Prime Minister fell seriously ill with Covid-19 in April 2020 and spent time under intensive care.
But he has been accused of regarding the disease as “an herb to treat the elderly. “
His handling of the unprecedented peacetime crisis was questioned by some of those close to him at the time.
Former members of the No 10 group, and Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings, with whom he fell out bitterly, have exposed the chaotic way in which his management worked.
And his aides told him he saw Covid-19 as “the weed to treat the elderly. “
Former Number 10 communications director Lee Cain admitted that his former boss’s erratic decision-making was “pretty exhausting. “
And in WhatsApp messages shared as part of the investigation, Britain’s most sensible official, Simon Case, said Johnson “could lead” and made government “impossible. “
Cummings dubbed Johnson “the chariot” of his habit of moving from one position to another.
Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief clinical adviser on the pandemic, wrote in his diary about his own frustrations with Johnson.
The adviser wrote in August 2020 that Johnson “was obsessed with making older people accept their fate and letting young people continue living and running the economy. “
Then, in December 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson had said that “his party ‘thinks this is all pathetic and that Covid is simply the herbal way of treating the elderly, and I am quite sure I do not agree with them’. “