Reviewing 2023
Reviewing 2023 I thought I’d go for one of the moments that genuinely left me speechless and it was the revelation that Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid-19 live on TV, this was part of some other revelations
Boris Johnson “wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television” to calm public fears, an ex-aide has said.
The claim – by Lord Lister – came in a witness statement to the Covid inquiry.
He said Mr Johnson “suggested to senior civil servants and advisers that he wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television to demonstrate to the public that it did not pose a threat”.
It was “at a time when Covid was not seen as being the serious disease it subsequently became”, he added.
He said it was an “unfortunate comment” that had been “made in the heat of the moment”.
He also confirmed his former boss had said letting “the bodies pile high” was preferable to another lockdown.
The remark was made in September 2020 but first reported in April 2021,
At the time, Mr Johnson dismissed the report, calling it “total rubbish”.
These revelations would have been utterly damaging for Boris Johnson and the Tories if was still Tory leader, not even hiding in a fridge would have saved him from the justifiable criticism that would have come from Starmer and others.
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