Johnson 'absent' in pandemic - inquiry
Manchester Evening News|March 14, 2024
WALES FIRST MINISTER HITS OUT AT UK GOVERNMENT
Johnson 'absent' in pandemic - inquiry

BORIS Johnson was like an "absent" football manager during the pandemic, a public inquiry has heard.

Mark Drakeford, the outgoing First Minister for Wales, criticised the former prime minister's leadership and failure to chair meetings with the devolved nations during the pandemic at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry yesterday.

In a written statement to the inquiry, Mr Drakeford described Michael Gove - the minister for the Cabinet Office during the early part of the pandemic and point of contact between the two governments as "a centre forward without a team lined up behind him, and where the manager was largely absent".

Addressing the inquiry, Mr Drakeford clarified he was talking about Mr Johnson.

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