Boris Johnson says ‘it may be bumpy until Christmas and beyond’; PM says it is too early to say local lockdown measures are not working
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Boris Johnson did not deliver an entirely negative forecast in his Andrew Marr interview. He rejected the idea that the UK would be stuck in a series of rolling lockdowns for years to come, and he insisted that by next spring the outlook would be very different. But generally, though, his message to the UK was a sobering one. He said:
I know people are furious, and they are furious with me and furious with the government. But, you know, I’ve got to tell you in all candour, it’s going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas, it may even be bumpy beyond. But this is the only way to do it.
Q: Eight years ago I had a stroke and I suffered serious fatigue when I came back to work. Have you suffered something similar? Have you got long Covid?
Johnson describes that claim as “drivel” and “balderdash”
