Edwina Currie defends Boris Johnson & Dominic Cummings amid fierce coronavirus backlash

Going underground Boris Johnson

We speak to former Conservative MP and junior Health Minister under Margaret Thatcher Edwina Currie. She discusses attempts to stop or delay Brexit amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports that Boris Johnson’s government’s delay in implementing a lockdown resulted in thousands of deaths, the scandal over Dominic Cummings arguably breaking UK Covid-19 lockdown rules and Johnson subsequently refusing to fire him, why the government is relying on the private sector for vaccine and test manufacturing as China takes the state-led approach, private sector involvement in contact tracing app development and more.

Watch: Here