The core of Boris Johnson has been brutally uncovered on the Covid inquiry over the previous two days — mean-faced, calculating, nervously watchful, blusteringly inarticulate; a person struggling to suppress his irritation and anger at being challenged in any respect.
The inquiry’s concern is to uncover how the British authorities managed the pandemic and what errors have been made; Johnson’s only concern has been a starkly totally different one — a determined try to rescue his personal deserved fame for carelessness, indifference, laziness and vanity by pulling wool over his interrogators’ eyes.
It has not labored. On Thursday, as on Wednesday, Johnson’s method was to airily settle for basic accountability for the whole lot the federal government obtained incorrect whereas denying particular accountability for any dangerous determination in anyway. His blindness to the
