A country divided by Brexit had voted in a government shorn of many of its more experienced hands. But, as this book has covered in detail, the weight of responsibility does fall heavily on the shoulders of the prime minister himself. He would almost certainly agree that individuals do shape history, as is attested by his biography of Winston Churchill in which his hero saves his country from the scourge of Nazism. Unfortunately, Johnson’s decisions – in particular the delays to the lockdowns – had a cataclysmic impact on his country, leaving it viewed internationally as a ‘plague island’, to
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