Boris Johnson v the Covid inquiry
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Today, as Boris Johnson looks to redefine his political legacy. What can we expect? May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride |
| 0:32.0 | So you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:35.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 0:38.0 | T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:55.0 | Tonight, I want to update you on the latest steps we're taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help. For more than a year, we hung on his words. |
| 0:59.0 | The time has now come for us all to do more. |
| 1:06.4 | From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction. You must stay at home. On what we could do, where we could go, who we could see. |
| 1:15.0 | He would tell us in front of that wooden lectern, week by week. |
| 1:19.0 | It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom, your freedom. |
| 1:27.0 | And we listened, even at times trying to work out what he meant. |
| 1:32.0 | Our assessment is that we should now squeeze that brake pedal. |
| 1:37.0 | Squeeze that brake pedal in order to keep the virus under control. |
| 1:42.0 | Throughout all the chaos, all the changes. |
| 1:46.0 | I have no doubt that people will be able to have as normal a Christmas as possible. We must, I'm afraid, look again at Christmas. |
| 2:00.0 | And as Prime Minister, it's my duty to take difficult decisions to do what is right to protect the people of this country. |
| 2:11.0 | Today and tomorrow we listen again, but this time he'll have to answer for those decisions. |
| 2:20.0 | Good morning to all those present in the hearing room and to those following us online. |
| 2:29.0 | Today marks another important milestone for the COVID-19 public inquiry, |
| 2:35.0 | a public inquiry, a public inquiry, 12 hours of grilling, |
| 2:39.0 | and maybe the highest forum |
| 2:41.0 | in which the architect of Britain's COVID response will ever be publicly held to account. |
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