Boris Johnson He apologized this Wednesday for “the pain and losses” caused by Covid-19 and admitted that he was wrong in some decisions. “I understand the feelings of the victims of Covid-19 and their families and I am deeply sorry for the pain, loss and suffering caused,” the politician said during a public inquiry into his management during the pandemic.
“Inevitably we get some things wrong,” continued the former british prime ministerbefore adding that “we did the best we could”, further noting that he took personal responsibility for the decisions made.
Johnson, who arrived three hours early at the London government office where he was summoned, will be subjected to a series of difficult questions this Wednesday and Thursday during this hearing, after having been the subject of strong criticism from his former advisers.
Since the hearings began in June, these contributors, including several advisers and scientists, have described a prime minister overwhelmed, indecisive and little concerned for victims when the pandemic broke out in early 2020, with a government divided and chaotic.
“It was the worst possible crisis for that prime minister’s powers,” Lee Cain, former Downing Street communications director, told the inquiry committee in late June, describing a Johnson who did not make decisions and constantly changed his minddepending on the last person who had spoken to him.
Guto Harri, who was Johnson’s communications director, came to the defense of his former boss this Wednesday on Times Radio and said: “The tragedy for me is that three of his most important assistants had a pathetic little WhatsApp group together. And just they were complaining in it about the prime minister and his wife, when they should have been carrying out the difficult decisions made by him and the elected members of the cabinet at the time,” he said.
Boris Johnson’s defense
He former prime minister of the United Kingdom Now he will have to put all his effort into convincing the audience that at the beginning of 2020 he was the right person to face the situation. Regarding the preparation of his defense, they assure that Johnson did it carefully after being locked up with his lawyers for hours.
The Times had even revealed broad outlines of his intervention and announced that Boris Johnson would ask for forgiveness, something that finally happened this Wednesday.
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The complaints against the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
After it came to light that Johnson had violated lockdown rules imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic at his Downing Street residence after celebrating several parties, the politician resigned from his position in September 2022. After leaving office, the families of the victims pressured him to participate in the public investigation, something he finally accepted.
Besides, Boris Johnson has been accused of abandoning older peoplenot understanding scientific graphs and governing with chaos and incompetence.
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