Towards the end, Boris Johnson looked exhausted. He was a boxer slumped against the ropes. Though perhaps that’s no surprise, judging by what the Covid inquiry had just heard about his woeful inability to focus forensically on the detail of policy or follow a scientific argument.
Two whole days of being repeatedly confronted by evidence of his own inadequacies – plus accounts of his rage at having to shut down the economy just to save what he reportedly dismissed as old people
