The Part-Time Prime Minister & The Winchester Effect
Or: The feeling that if you just nip off on holiday, it’ll have all blown over by the time you get back
There’s that ominous quote - a forewarning, really - from an unnamed adviser who said in the Times from an article written at the height of the first wave of Covid infections on April 19 2020:
This, of course, reflected on the Prime Minister’s absence in the early stages of the pandemic when Boris Johnson skipped several COBRA meetings because he was - b…