British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recovering from a coronavirus infection at his official country residence of Chequers, about 60km north of London, where he was joined by his fiancee Carrie Symonds, who is expecting their first child.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Politics of a pandemic British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recovering from a coronavirus infection at his official country residence of Chequers, about 60km north of London, where he was joined by his fiancee Carrie Symonds, who is expecting their first child.
Upon leaving hospital, Mr Johnson released a video message in which he heaped praise on Britain's National Health Service , the country's top healthcare provider and Europe's biggest employer, with a labour force of around 1.7 million permanent staff. Both became instant hits in their home countries; the President of Portugal, Mr Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,"personally thanked" his countryman for his work.
But with deaths from coronavirus infections now well over the psychologically important 10,000 threshold, opposition leaders were quick to ask whether the Prime Minister's support for the NHS will be translated into serious financial spending. But with Mr Johnson now out of hospital, the political truce that prevailed in London while the Premier's life was in danger is over, and opposition parties are attacking the government's management of health matters.
Although all ministers claim that this arrangement works well, that all decisions are being taken as needed and that"normal Cabinet collective responsibility and principles that inform that will apply" as Mr Raab put it, the reality remains that the void in the heart of government is obvious.
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