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WATCH: Boris Johnson’s most outrageous moments at Covid inquiry [1]

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Date: 2023-12

This week saw Boris Johnson bluster his way through a grilling on Partygate, structural racism and his missing WhatsApp messages at the Covid inquiry.

The former prime minister defended his government’s response to the virus, which has killed more than 232,000 people in the UK, as he gave evidence to the inquiry’s second module.

openDemocracy sat through every minute of the two-day hearing, so you don’t have to.

Here are some of the most outrageous moments from Johnson’s testimony.

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‘Totally f***ing hopeless’

Asked why he had described his own government as “totally f***ing hopeless” in March 2020, a stuttering Johnson replied: “An important part of my job was not to uncritically accept that everything was good.”

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