UK's Johnson failed 'disastrously' in Covid-19 crisis, ex-chief adviser says

Dominic Cummings

* Johnson's government ‘failed’ the public: Cummings * Fell ‘disastrously short’: Cummings * West failed to see the smoke of Covid-19: Cummings * Johnson considered coronavirus injection: Cummings   British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief adviser said his ex-boss failed in the Covid-19 crisis and ministers fell ‘disastrously short’ of the standards the public had a right to expect during the most devastating global pandemic in decades. With almost 128,000 deaths, the United Kingdom has the world's fifth worst official Covid-19 toll, and Johnson was slow to appreciate the significance of the threat from the virus in early 2020 as it spread from China towards Britain's shores.