A rather bizarre story. Surely, if you're unwell you would step down now and not wait until February? Suggestions elsewhere are that this could be a device to put distance between the handling of Covid and the Conservative Party whilst still allowing Johnson to go down in history as taking us out of the EU.
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Downing Street today described as “utter nonsense” a report that the Prime Minister is still suffering from the effects of coronavirus and may have to step down early.
The source of the claim was said to be the father-in-law of Boris Johnson’s controversial aide Dominic Cummings, who is alleged to have said it to a visitor on his estate.
The Times’s diary column related how a reader, Anna Silverman, fell into conversation with Sir Humphry Wakefield while visiting Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. It claimed the baronet “merrily informed her that Boris Johnson is still struggling badly with having had Covid-19 … and will stand down in six months”.
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