Boris Johnson started his proof to the Covid Inquiry with an apology however none of the remainder of his testimony steered he was genuinely contrite.
The tone was set with one of many first questions posed by Hugo Keith KC, the counsel to the Inquiry, when he requested Mr Johnson to increase on his admission that “mistakes were made.” After a lot huffing and shuffling, the previous Prime Minister pointed to the conflicting messaging coming from the Westminster and Scottish governments.
He couldn’t deliver himself to say the deaths in care properties, the failure to understand extra rapidly the risk posed by the virus, the dysfunction in No 10, the issues with Test & Trace and the way Downing Street turned occasion central. The most repeated phrase to return from his lips was “I don’t remember.”
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At least a dozen occasions Mr Johnson discovered his reminiscence failed him. It can’t be a coincidence this amnesia was most obvious when he confronted questions on his slowness to recognise the seriousness of the virus, the mayhem and discord inside No 10 and his haphazard model of management.
The Prime Minister’s reminiscence might have been selective. The recollections of those that misplaced family members to Covid are all too actual.