British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in response to his critics: The government has not underestimated the Coronavirus
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to the accusation of his critics that he initially considered the emerging corona virus to be a form of "swine flu".
Opposition leader Keir Starmer, during a session in the House of Commons, accused the prime minister of underestimating the threat of Covid-19.
"I don't think anyone can accuse this government of underestimating the threat of this virus," Johnson said. He added, "We have worked hard to reduce the loss of life ... We continue to work to protect the people of this country from one of the worst pandemics in living memory."
In turn, Dominic Cummings, a former advisor to Johnson, criticized the management of the Corona crisis by the government, saying it was "catastrophic", during the hearing, whose results seemed alarming to "Downing Street."
Cummings (49 years) was keen, during the session that will last 4 hours, to express to the families of the victims of the epidemic, "his regret for all the mistakes that have been made."
He said, before a parliamentary committee, with details about the first weeks after the outbreak of the epidemic in China and then in Britain: "The truth is that ministers, senior officials and advisors like me, were not, disastrously, at the level of what the people expected from their government during a crisis like this."
Six months after his departure against the backdrop of internal conflicts, the architect of the successful Brexit campaign in 2016 and Johnson's landslide victory in the legislative elections in December 2019, direct his arrows to the British prime minister.
But whatever criticisms Cummings would release against Johnson, what remains to be seen is the extent of credibility the British give him, because according to a poll conducted by YouGov and published Saturday in the "Times" newspaper, only 14% of voters trust him to tell the truth compared to 38% trust With the prime minister.
For many of them, Dominic Cummings' name is closely linked to the scandal he went out at the height of the closure to visit his family in the north of England, for fear of contracting Corona, to stay with his 4-year-old son.
