UK Dominic Cummings reopens Thunder Box
Politics Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson go to war
"The Government failed when we needed it most," former Boris Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings has openly declared in his long-awaited appearance in a parliamentary committee to detail the strategy before the Covid, which has claimed more than 128,000 deaths in the Kingdom United.
Cummings personalized his attacks on Boris Johnson, highlighting how he took two weeks of vacation in February 2020 and how he was absent from Cobra emergency cabinets and did not take the threat seriously.
In a multiple offensive on Twitter, Cummings also accused Johnson of
leaving "the most vulnerable unprotected"
and of not having a plan for the elderly in residences, where more than 40% of the 20,000 fatalities died at the most critical moment of the first wave.
Cummings has assured that the policy of the Government of Boris Johnson was
seek "group immunity", and that the
premier
finally agreed to confinement after being warned by scientists that the initial strategy could have caused more than 250,000 fatalities.
In early disclosures by
The Daily Mail,
Cummings was willing to state that Johnson disparagingly called Covid
the "Kung Flu"
and went as far as saying that he was willing to allow himself to be inoculated with the virus on television to show that there was no risk (before get to contract it personally).
Johnson's goal was group immunity
Johnson's former adviser
took his share of the blame
in the government's fiasco in the early stages of the epidemic, although he stressed that during the month of January he was trying to convince the "premier" of the seriousness of the situation.
In his posts on Twitter, Cummings even hinted that the
premier
was busy most of February writing his biography of Shakespeare (in order to pay for his divorce from Marina Wheeler).
Cummings acknowledged that Johnson and his direct advisers initially believed that the measures taken by China "were going to work for them" and that "it would be inconceivable for the British to take measures like those in Wuhan."
According to the former adviser, "group immunity" was the official plan.
"It amazes me now to hear the Secretary of Health Matt Hancock say that it was not like that, because it is something that can be verified in the documents that I have contributed to the parliamentary committee," said Cummings. "The original logic was: the
Covid will come, there will be a wave,
measures will be taken to contain it and the National Health System will be able to cope (...) It was believed that people would not abide by the confinements, and they worked on the assumption that there would be a first wave, possibly a second, and that vaccines would not be available during 2020. "
Several members of Johnson's cabinet have fired at the credibility of Cummings, who violated lockdown with his family to make a 400-kilometer trip from London to Durham.
Johnson's former strategist and the architect of the Brexit victory left Downing Street's back door in November, following a growing estrangement with the premier and a personal confrontation with his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds.
In light of Cummings' testimony, the Labor Party has called for the
immediate opening of an investigation
into the strategy against Covid, delayed by Boris Johnson until 2022.
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