Arguably the worst Prime Minister the UK has ever suffered, Boris Johnson has now released a new memoir, in which he happily admits to a ‘nuts idea’ he dreamt up during his shambolic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic
Disgraced and humiliated former Prime Minister Boris Johnson gleefully reveals in a hilarious new memoir that he hatched a harebrained secret plan to invade the Netherlands to steal Covid-19 vaccine supplies.
The brash ex-PM’s brash memoir Unleashed details how the bumbling Conservative leader went off the deep end during one of the worst crises ever to hit the UK. After months of “futile” negotiations with European Union leaders over the release of five million Covid-19 doses, Johnson, the bumbling fine man claims, hatched a plan for elite British military troops to secretly raid a Dutch canal to seize the vaccine. Vaccination.
The purported contingency plan was hatched in 2021 after supplies of the British-developed vaccine were allegedly “hijacked” by EU leaders and stored in a warehouse in the city of Leiden in the Dutch region of southern Holland. The vaccines had reportedly been kept in the warehouse entangled in bureaucratic obstacles, made worse by the UK’s recent departure from the EU.
Johnson, leader of the disastrous Brexit campaign, is now happy to admit that he hatched absurd plans to send elite British troops to rob vaccines and raid a Dutch canal. The Daily Mail is serialising Johnson’s epic memoirs, in which he himself admits that he has finally realised what everyone could have realised all along – that his ideas were, in Johnson’s words, “crazy”.
Johnson also detailed his own near-death experience during the Covid-19 pandemic, when he nearly lost his life to a virus he had initially laughed off and ignored. The inept former leader infamously joked that he had shook hands with “everyone” at a hospital with a confirmed coronavirus case – the same day that Downing Street’s scientific advisers warned that the government should tell the public that they shouldn’t.
Within months, Johnson contracted the virus and nearly died. He claimed he was careful not to doze off in the intensive care unit at St Thomas’ Hospital because he feared he would never wake up and eventually die.
In his memoirs, he shockingly claims that when rival former cabinet minister Michael Gove learned that Johnson might die, “his lenses seemed to light up at the thought”.
Meanwhile, a series of exclusive revelations by the suggest that the so-called Partygate scandal, which contributed to the demise of Johnson’s political career, has given him a new opportunity to lament his fate and try to shape reality to his liking.
The former prime minister has fiercely defended his appalling acts of dishonesty, even writing that he now feels he should have protected himself and his staff at No. 10 Downing Street, and that he is more committed to defending than apologizing.
All he can bring himself to do is admit he made “several mistakes” before taking a swipe at civil servant, Keir Starmer ’s current chief of staff, who at the time was tasked with investigating the Partygate rule breaking Johnson’s government engaged in, as they broke the rules they themselves invented and insisted the British public followed.
Regarding the pandemic lockdown party that sparked a Metropolitan Police probe, Johnson refers to it as a “cake” meeting and writes: “I saw no cake. I ate no blooming cake. If this was a party, it was the feeblest event in the history of human festivity.”
