Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed in his memoirs that he was considering a “float raid” on a warehouse in the Netherlands to steal coronavirus vaccines at the height of the pandemic.
The former prime minister discussed the plan with senior military officials in March 2021, according to an excerpt from his forthcoming book Unleashed published in the Daily Mail.
At the time, the AstraZeneca vaccine was at the center of a dispute between the channels over exports, with Mr Johnson believing the EU was treating the UK “in bad faith”.
“I have commissioned work to determine whether it is technically possible to conduct a water raid on a warehouse in Leiden, Netherlands, and seize something that is legally ours and that Britain desperately needs,” Johnson said. Ta.
Lieutenant General Doug Chalmers, the deputy chief of the defense staff, told the prime minister the plan was “certainly feasible” and would involve the use of rigid rubber boats to navigate the Dutch canals.
“They will then rendezvous toward their target; enter; secure hostage supplies; escape using articulated trucks; and proceed to Channel ports,” Johnson wrote.
But Mr Chalmers told Johnson that it would be difficult to carry out the mission without being detected, meaning Britain “needs to explain why it is effectively invading a long-standing NATO ally”. Then he spoke.
Mr Johnson concluded: “Of course I knew he was right, and I secretly agreed with them all, but I didn't want to say it out loud. That everything was wrong.”
Elsewhere in the excerpts published, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was shown wearing a cake at an event he described as “the weakest moment in human history”, held to mark his 56th birthday during the coronavirus lockdown. He denied eating it.
He said he did not see or eat any cake at the June 19, 2020 event, and that he did not believe at the time that Partygate's birthday gathering was “in any way against the rules.” Chancellor Rishi Sunak added: “I had no idea.” .
He writes: “This is what actually happened that day: I stood for a moment in my place in the Cabinet room, where meetings were held all day, and the Prime Minister and other staff members wished me a happy birthday. .
“There was no cake in sight. I didn't eat the blooming cake. If this was a party, it was the weakest event in the history of human celebration. I had just gotten through COVID-19. . I didn't sing. I didn't dance.
Downing Street previously confirmed that staff had “briefly assembled” in Cabinet rooms for a surprise social gathering, said to have been organized by Mr Johnson's current wife, Carrie.
Mr Johnson became the first prime minister to be criminally punished while in office for a party scandal, but an investigation by former senior civil servant Sue Gray found that neither Mr Johnson nor Mr Sunak had prior knowledge of the incident. It turned out.
In an excerpt from his autobiography, Mr Johnson said that while he was in intensive care with coronavirus, he believed he “could have gotten infected” if it weren't for the “skill and experience” of the nurses. He also said.
Johnson spent several days in intensive care in April 2020 after contracting the coronavirus. Johnson said she didn't want to sleep the first night she was in intensive care, “just in case I didn't wake up.”
After being discharged from hospital, the then Prime Minister spent some time at Checkers with his now wife Carrie, and recalled taking part in the NHS clap on Thursday night.
“I clapped with deep emotion, because my lungs were telling me that I had been through some really pretty bad things, and what if it hadn't been that way? [his nurses] “Jenny and Lewis were fiddling with the oxygen tube all night with all their skill and experience and I think I might have broken it,” he wrote.
Upon admission to the ICU, Johnson “started to doze off, but I didn't want to go back to sleep, in case I didn't wake up or they decided to secretly perform a tracheotomy without telling me.” spoke.
