Johnson hauled again for second day of Covid Inquiry grilling – newest updates
Boris Johnson will likely be hauled again to the Covid Inquiry for a second day of gruelling testimony on his pandemic failings.
The former Prime Minister was booed and heckled with shouts of “liar” by bereaved households lining the streets exterior the listening to final evening. In a dramatic day of proof, he was interrupted by protesters carrying indicators saying, “The dead can’t hear your apologies”, as he tried so ask for forgiveness for the ache and struggling endured by thousands and thousands.
He admitted he ought to have “twigged much sooner” the seriousness of the risk posed by the virus – and conceded the Government may have acted extra shortly to save lots of lives. He additionally didn’t dispute allegations that he questioned why “people who will die anyway soon” wanted to be saved as he resisted the primary lockdown.
Mr Johnson is giving proof below oath over two days, with questions prone to flip to Autumn 2020 when he dithered and delayed over imposing restrictions because the second wave of the virus gathered tempo.
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Boris Johnson arrives hours early to the Covid Inquiry – once more
The former PM has now arrived on the Covid Inquiry – nearly three hours early.
Yesterday he was ridiculed for being a “coward” after he arrived three hours early and averted bereaved households who had been on the point of maintain photos of their family members exterior the Covid Inquiry centre.
Covid bereaved households disgusted by ‘merciless’ and ‘callous’ Boris Johnson
Bereaved households of Covid have spoken of their “disgust” at Boris Johnson, who they accused of being “callous and disrespectful of people’s lives” all through the pandemic.
Those who misplaced family members stated “everyone in the country has, in some way, been let down” by Mr Johnson, who was supposed to maintain the nation protected throughout the pandemic.
Protestor Fran Hall, 62, from Denham, Bucks, whose husband Steve Mead, 65, died three weeks after they married in September 2020, accused Mr Johnson of “trying very hard to control the narrative”.
“We didn’t want him to be grandstanding in the hearing room today making an apology to bereaved people and then carrying on giving his evidence without us making our feelings heard,” she told the Mirror.
Boris Johnson set to take the stand for a second day at 10am
The former PM faces a second gruelling day being interrogated by the Covid Inquiry from 10am today.
Yesterday Mr Johnson was told by families who lost loved ones “the lifeless cannot hear your apologies” as he apologised for mistakes made during the crisis.
The former PM admitted he should have “twigged a lot sooner” about the danger the country faced as he was grilled over his botched response. On an explosive day at the Covid Inquiry, he admitted not attending key meetings and going on holiday days after being warned the virus would “sweep world”.
