It became known that Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not arrive at a meeting of the British National Crisis Commission. He chose to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Johnson, ignoring the meeting of the commission, accepted the Chinese community on Downing Street. Toward the evening of this day, an agreement was signed to withdraw from the European Union. This moment could be decisive in his political career, but that was before the world changed, Times writes.
Johnson also missed Cobra’s next four virus encounters. Meetings took place in January and February, but at a time when coronavirus was a secondary topic on the British agenda after Brexit and the flood. Johnson mainly spent two of these weeks at his residence.
Only on March 2 – five weeks later – Johnson will attend the Cobra meeting on the coronavirus. But by then it was too late, the article said. And this delay has already cost Britain thousands of lives.
A judicial investigation is inevitable, journalists say. One day, an investigation will be conducted into the lack of training during these “lost” five weeks from January 24, and the main focus will be on the reaction of politicians.