(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 26 - The former adviser of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, attacked the British premier and his government accusing them of arriving "disastrously" late in dealing with the coronavirus crisis. The BBC reports it.
In a House hearing on pandemic management, Cummings said the UK "heard the alarm bell" when the virus hit other countries early last year claiming it had pressed Johnson on the need for a lockdown as early as mid-March. but that the proposal had not been collected with "a concrete plan".
"Ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me have not lived up to what people expect in a crisis like this," he admitted, apologizing for the "mistakes made" with the victims' families. According to Cummings, in Britain there were "thousands upon thousands of better people" than Johnson and his Labor rival, Jeremy Corbyn, to manage the crisis by using the image of "lions" to describe the relationship between tragic and frontline health workers. led by donkeys ". The former adviser to the premier also revealed that he had invited Johnson to oust Health Minister Matt Hancock, calling him "completely unable to do his job". (HANDLE).