With one million shots a day, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promises to protect his country against the new, rapidly advancing covid variant omikron.
Under Johnson’s ‘omikron emergency plan’, football stadiums are being turned back into vaccination centers and medical personnel are being taken from non-emergency hospital wards to help with injections. The British army will also be given the task of providing logistical support for the operation.
The flexing campaign surrounding Johnson’s booster shot comes as he enters a critical week in his premiership. He is ravaged by scandals – from Christmas parties to hushed donations for his official residence – and today he faces the biggest Tory rebellion yet, with a vote on corona measures in the House of Commons.
Exactly two years ago, Johnson took his landslide victory of 363 seats. He was seen as the ‘secret weapon’ of the conservatives. Hailed as the showman that everyone managed to reach: the so-called ‘Heineken politician’ – after the beer that everyone can drink. Even the Labor regions of the north fell for the chaotic, joking blond hair.
Although Johnson was already subject to countless scandals: – no one knew whether he had five or more children, now there are probably seven – and he was also regularly caught telling untruths. At the time, he was forgiven for that, but now it seems to be turning against him. Last week Johnson’s most loyal newspaper wrote, The Daily Telegraph: ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’
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Popped up on Tuesday a leaked video in which press officer Allegra Stratton jokes about a Christmas party allegedly held in Downing Street on December 18, 2020. The country was in lockdown at the time, the British were told by their government to cancel their Christmas plans. In the video, the now (crying) resigned information officer practiced how she will ‘spin’ any questions about a Christmas party to the press: namely that it was only a ‘work meeting’ with some cheese and wine.
“That ‘fictional’ party was a business meeting. There was no distance,” joked Stratton:
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