COVID 5 years on. The absences of Boris Johnson in the first months of 2020
Not a memory that most will wish to revisit but in 2020 Boris Johnson was Prime Minister as the COVID epidemic seized the country
In the crucial weeks before March (2020) Boris Johnson did not attend any of the five virus meetings held by Cobra, the emergency committee, in January and February and spent 12 days out of the public eye while on a ‘working’ holiday at (Chevening) in Kent.
Sunday Times 19th April
The reality is though that Johnson has a lifelong history of absence
James Griffin, then Professor of Classical Literature at Balliol…was tolerant of Boris’s absences and late or non-existent work
Sonia Purnell, Just Boris
Boris’s persistent absences meant that mistakes were made that a more meticulous editor might have avoided
Sonia Purnell on Johnson’s period as Editor of the Spectator
‘not for the first time..the cry went up: Where is Boris’.
Sonia Purnell on attempts to contact Johnson, Mayor of London, after the start of rioting in London on 6/7th August 2011
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