A former senior aide to Boris Johnson has said she felt like his "nanny" in an unflattering description of his behaviour in the top job, recalling how she scheduled his naps and soothed his "temper tantrums".
Cleo Watson, brought into No 10 as an ally of Dominic Cummings, described how Mr Johnson needed "house-training" to take precautionary measures to protect others when pinged during the pandemic, how he made jokes such as "kung-flu", and that he would feign bending over when she went to take his temperature.
The special adviser in No 10 also compared the Prime Minister's "reluctance" to leave office after a number of ministers quit the Government to Donald Trump, saying Mr Johnson has "never exactly been the commitment type, except in this case, his reluctance to leave did seem a bit 'let's storm the Capitol, chaps"'. She also admits there were days when people at the heart of Government "thought the virus had won, that we had acted too late and that our measures weren't working".
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