{"id":140977,"date":"2020-04-20T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/20\/boris-johnson-is-the-wrong-man-in-the-wrong-job-at-the-wrong-time-polly-toynbee\/"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:50:43","slug":"boris-johnson-is-the-wrong-man-in-the-wrong-job-at-the-wrong-time-polly-toynbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=140977","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time | Polly Toynbee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Times revelations confirm all our worst fears: the prime minister\u2019s handling of coronavirus has been shockingly complacentCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEverything unravels with almost indecent speed. After a brush with death, the prime minister is still recovering at Chequers when one of his many supportive newspapers drops a grenade straight down his Elizabethan chimney. No period of grace and convalescence: the Sunday Times didn\u2019t even wait for him to stumble back to Downing Street before firing off its devastating attack on his cavalier incompetence over the coronavirus outbreak. What makes the insiders\u2019 account so devastating is that it chimes with everything everyone already knows about Boris Johnson\u2019s character. An unnamed \u201csenior adviser\u201d to Downing Street \u201cbroke ranks\u201d to say: \u201cWhat you learn about Boris was he didn\u2019t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn\u2019t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn\u2019t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/20\/boris-johnson-sunday-times-prime-minister-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time | Polly Toynbee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Times revelations confirm all our worst fears: the prime minister\u2019s handling of coronavirus has been shockingly complacentCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEverything unravels with almost indecent speed. After a brush with death, the prime minister is still recovering at Chequers when one of his many supportive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}