Bereaved Families for Justice
Today we saw an exhibition of Johnson’s characteristics that failed us so badly during the pandemic.
He was evasive and non committal, claimed to be “unable to remember” what happened to his WhatsApp messages and and wouldn’t even accept his mistakes had led to excess deaths.
This was not the conduct of a man who wanted lessons to be learnt, and his apology rang utterly hollow.
It’s a painful reminder of his refusal to take Covid seriously in early 2020 and start preparing testing and other public health measures.
His indecisiveness when he refused to lockdown, causing the NHS to become overwhelmed.
And his failure to learn from his mistakes in the second wave, leading to an even larger death toll than in the first.
Ultimately, however much Johnson blusters, the proof was in the UK’s awful death toll, the second worst in Western Europe.
Everyone in the country has, in some way, been let down by Johnson's handling of Covid-19.
He was the worst possible PM at the worst possible time.
Tomorrow, after 3 years of campaigning to hold Johnson to account, the lawyers representing bereaved families will finally question him on our behalf.
We will get to the truth about what happened, so that lessons can be learned and lives can be saved in the future.
The memory of our loved one’s demands it.