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Old 06-09-2023, 14:40   #5495
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Re: Britain outside the EU
The truth is starting to come out
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Boris Johnson ‘buried head in sand’ on Covid to sort Brexit, ex-Tory health minister says

Speaking to the Institute for Government as part of its ongoing series of in-depth interviews with former ministers about their time in office, Lord Bethell said: “No 10 didn’t want to prioritise the pandemic in early 2020, even though the evidence was mounting – there was a post-election, ostrich, head-in-the-sand mentality, which I saw again around the invasion of Ukraine.

“Its priority, and what we were told many times, was Brexit and levelling up. ‘We have to deliver Brexit, so could your pandemic quietly go and mind your own business, please,’ we were told.

“So we had several weeks of this brushing off, and then they switched into it eventually. After that, we got a lot of erratic dipping in. In Yiddish, it’s called ‘kibitzing’: erratic and ill-informed interference.”

Lord Bethell said the government’s coordination got “a lot better” after Mr Johnson’s former top advisor Dominic Cummings left Downing Street in November 2020.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...a804d5e0&ei=14
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