Is it unusual for a PM to skip Cobra meetings?
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Boris Johnson missed five on coronavirus, but a PM’s presence is by no means required
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It was David Cameron who expanded the Cobra emergency planning system when he was prime minister, telling officials he wanted to be “one step ahead” of crisis events. His successor, Theresa May, was reluctant use it at first because she disliked a structure that had been used to assert authority over the Home Office she once ran.
The charge against Boris Johnson is that he did not want to turn up at all, skipping five Cobra meetings that discussed coronavirus in January and February and only chairing his first on 3 March, several weeks after the scale of the crisis had become apparent. Continue reading...
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