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https://www.businessinsider.com/dominic-cummings-father-in-law-boris-johnson-will-resign-february-2020-8?r=US&IR=T
I'll believe it when I see it! This might be another piece of
disinformation being circulated for some reason or other...
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The father-in-law of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser has
apparently said that Johnson plans to resign in six months.
Dominic Cummings' father-in-law, Humphry Wakefield, reportedly told a
woman interviewed by The Times of London that the prime minister would
quit early next year over lingering health problems caused by the
coronavirus.
Johnson was admitted to an intensive-care unit with COVID-19 in April
but returned to work just weeks later.
Wakefield is said to have compared Johnson's condition to that of an
injured horse that returns to work too soon.
"If you put a horse back to work when it's injured, it will never
recover," he was quoted as saying.
A Downing Street source described the claim Johnson planned to stand
down as "utter nonsense."
The father-in-law of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's closest aide has
reportedly said Johnson plans to stand down in six months because of
lingering health problems caused by the novel coronavirus.
The Times of London's Diary column reported a conversation between
Humphry Wakefield, the father of Dominic Cummings' wife, Mary, and a
woman named Anna Silverman last week in which he is said to have told
her that Johnson would resign early next year because of the lasting
effects of his time in intensive care.
Silverman told The Times she had the conversation with Wakefield when
she bumped into him on a trip to Chillingham Castle in the northeastern
English county of Northumberland.
Wakefield is said to have compared Johnson's condition to that of an
injured horse that is brought back too early.
"If you put a horse back to work when it's injured, it will never
recover," The Times quoted him as saying.
A Downing Street source strongly denied the claim that Johnson was
planning to resign in six months, describing it to Business Insider as
"utter nonsense."
Johnson spent five days in intensive care at London's St. Thomas'
Hospital in April after catching the coronavirus. He has since said that
doctors made "arrangements" for his death and that he was given "liters
and liters of oxygen" at the height of his illness to keep him alive.
"It was a tough old moment, I won't deny it. They had a strategy to deal
with a 'death of Stalin'-type scenario," Johnson said in an interview
with The Sun in May.
"I was not in particularly brilliant shape and I was aware there were
contingency plans in place."
Multiple reports in the months following his hospitalization have
indicated his health remains poor.
Downing Street, however, has been keen to dispel any suggestions of
lingering health problems, with the prime minister posing for
photographs while doing press-ups and with photos of Johnson jogging
being distributed to UK news outlets.
Johnson has been UK prime minister for just over a year after succeeding
Theresa May as the Conservative leader in July 2019.
He would have to stay on as prime minister for nearly four more years to
fight the next general election, which is due to take place in May 2024.
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