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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Neate

Wednesday briefing: What Boris Johnson’s closest advisers had to say for themselves at the Covid inquiry

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Photograph: UK Covid-19 Inquiry/AFP/Getty Images

Good morning. Today we’re headed to the Covid inquiry, which is increasingly revealing staggering – and foulmouthed (you’ve been warned) – insights into how Boris Johnson and his advisers handled the outbreak of the pandemic.

Those who were once closest to the former prime minister have revealed Johnson was referred to as “the trolley” by “pretty much everyone” due to the inconsistency of his decision making and that he described coronavirus as “just nature’s way of dealing with old people”.

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