(SUMMIT NEWS) – According to his former chief adviser, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially refused to close the borders to stop the spread of coronavirus because he thought it would be seen as “racist.” Yes, really.
Appearing before a parliamentary committee investigating the government’s response to the pandemic, Dominic Cummings said there was a form of “groupthink” within Johnson’s cabinet that it was “basically racist to call for closing the borders and blaming China and the whole China New Year thing.”
“And that was basically nonsense,” said Cummings, adding that it was “madness” that people from severely infected regions of the world were still arriving in the UK in March 2020.
