Boris Johnson’s dad managed to skip the queue to get double-jabbed before everyone else – even though his son saw the elderly as expendable during the pandemic.
Stanley, age 83, received his second coronavirus vaccine three weeks after his first one, even though most people were being told to wait to the last week of the 12-week period to book theirs.
The ex-prime minister’s dad was forced to defend his actions on numerous occasions during the pandemic, often undermining his son by not wearing a mask, going to the pub and travelling to Greece to visit his holiday home.
He blamed his “prominent nose” for pictures of him not wearing a mask.
This week at the Covid inquiry it was revealed that Sir Patrick Vallance believed Johnson thought the coronavirus pandemic was “Nature’s way of dealing with old people”.
The Government’s chief scientific adviser during Covid-19 wrote that the then-prime minister suggested he may have agreed with Conservatives that the “whole thing is pathetic”.
Sir Patrick hit out in his diaries about “quite a bonkers set of exchanges” featuring Mr Johnson, extracts shown to the official inquiry on Tuesday showed.
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