1. Johnson jabbed
"No more f***ing lockdowns — let the bodies pile high in their thousands!" UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is alleged to have raged during a cabinet fight over lockdowns. He is said to have made the remark after a minister warned him, ahead of a third lockdown in January, that soldiers would be needed to guard hospitals overrun with Covid victims. Downing Street denies it. The chief rat is said to be Johnson’s sacked former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings, who tweeted over the weekend that the failure to introduce travel bans more quickly was "a very important issue re: learning from the disaster"...
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