Boris Johnson: asleep on the job again
Boris Johnson has been pictured maskless (of course) and asleep at COP26 in Glasgow.
There have been previous claims, denied by Downing St, that Johnson takes naps during the day. Given that he had COVID-19 himself in March/April 2020 this may well be an impact of what is known as Long or Post COVID. If so it’s a pity Johnson doesnt admit it and speak up about it.
That said the most well known picture of napping Johnson (before today) was taken at the Oval cricket ground a while before the pandemic.
More generally I don’t think there is anything wrong with having a brief nap during the day (if the job and circumstances allow). There is something rather macho about suggesting there isn’t.
That of course is another problem for Johnson. Day time naps go counter to the image he has constructed of himself. In her biography of Johnson, Just Boris, Sonia Purnell notes that Johnson compared himself to Margaret Thatcher who slept little and was already busy with the day’s work at 5am.
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