Damning article in the Sunday Times. Among the claims:
Johnson did not attend any of the 5 virus Cobra meetings in January or February. If true that is unbelievable.
By late January government advisers were warning that the virus had to potential to infect as many people as Spanish Flu, yet we continued to send PPE to China - 266,000 items including 37,500 gowns by end Feb.
A Downing St adviser saying “And what you learn about Boris was that he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense he didn’t do urgent crisis-planning”.