NUMBER 10 has said a report that Boris Johnson will step down in six months due to continuing ill-health from coronavirus is “utter nonsense”.
The Times diary column quoted Dominic Cummings’s father-in-law, Sir Humphry Wakefield, as telling a visitor to Chillingham Castle that the Prime Minister was ready to quit his position after Brexit.
The story cited Anna Silverman, a journalist who travelled to the Northumberland castle last week.
She said Wakefield merrily informed her that Johnson is still struggling with lingering effects of Covid-19 and will leave the job in about six months.
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The piece continues: “A keen rider, Wakefield compared having the virus to being gone in the fetlock. ‘If you put a horse back to work when it’s injured it will never recover.’”
A Downing Street source said that the claim was “utter nonsense”, however.
The Tory leader was taken to intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital in London back in April after his coronavirus symptoms worsened 11 days after he tested positive for the virus.
He spent three days in ICU before being moved back onto a general ward.
During his hospitalisation, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab took over his main responsibilities.
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