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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Johnson asked scientists about ‘special hairdryer to kill Covid’, says Cummings

Dominic Cummings Boris Johnson Covid-19 Pandemic William Shakespeare
Boris Johnson photographed at Lviv National University, Ukraine, September 2023 – close-up of him sitting against pale yellow backdrop the same colour as his hair, wearing dark jacket, white shirt and green tie
Boris Johnson, above, was working on a biography of William Shakespeare rather than the pandemic in February 2020, Cummings suggested. Photograph: Ukrinform/Shutterstock

Boris Johnson asked the top scientists Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance if Covid could be destroyed by blowing a “special hairdryer” up the nose, according to Dominic Cummings.

Johnson’s former senior political adviser described this moment as a “low point”, with the ex-prime minister circulating a YouTube video of a man using a device for this purpose.

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