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Assignment: Boris Johnson and Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

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Boris Johnson and Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

14/05/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Assignment, Boris Johnson and Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

What catching Covid-19 reveals about the politics and leadership style of Boris Johnson

What catching Covid-19 reveals about the politics and leadership style of Boris Johnson. Jonny Dymond traces the key events of the past three months.

Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has led his country’s efforts to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. At one level it turned into a very personal mission. At the beginning of April he was hospitalised having tested positive for the virus and spent three days in intensive care fighting for his life. Jonny Dymond asks how this happened and what it reveals about Mr Johnson’s style of leadership and politics.

(Image: Boris Johnson as he gives a statement outside 10 Downing Street on 27 April 27 2020 on his return to work after being hospitalised with the Covid-19 virus. Credit: Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street/AFP via Getty Images)

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