The evidence is being given before Baroness Hallett’s independent commission, which is investigating various stages of Britain’s response to COVID-19, not to assign blame but to issue orders.
London, Thanasis Gavos
The long-awaited testimony of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the handling of the coronavirus pandemic begins today in London (10am local).
The evidence is being given before Baroness Hallett’s independent commission, which is investigating various stages of Britain’s response to COVID-19, not to assign blame but to issue orders.
The testimony of the then prime minister will last two days. According to reports and people close to him, Mr Johnson is expected to apologize for government errors during that period, but also to argue that he made the right decisions on key issues, ultimately saving thousands of lives.
Boris Johnson has already been criticized by other witnesses at the inquest. For example, the head of communications in the prime minister’s office at the time, Lee Kane, said that the pandemic “was the wrong judgment” for his boss’s abilities.
The government’s then chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, repeated his diary entries which pointed with despair at Boris Johnson’s “indecisiveness”, while former chief adviser Dominic Cummings criticized the general operation of the government apparatus under Mr Johnson.
Source :Skai
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