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Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?

5 March 2020

9:30 PM

5 March 2020

9:30 PM

Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age. The coronavirus requires him to be everything he is not: serious, attentive to detail and respectful of expertise and public servants. He may not be ‘yesterday’s man’, because no replacement is in sight.

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