Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson now reckons he “probably did go too far” with the lockdown rules for kids during the pandemic View 4 Images Boris Johnson said planning for closures of schools should have started earlier [stock] (Image: Getty Images)

Boris Johnson admitted there were a host of cock-ups in his handling of the Covid crisis which left him feeling “homicidal”. The ex-prime minister told the Covid Inquiry the “full horror” of coronavirus was “slow to dawn on the government”. ‌

And he now reckons he “probably did go too far” with the lockdown rules for kids, saying he was close to expelling his education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson over the 2020 exam results scandal which left him in a “homicidal mood”. ‌

Mr Johnson confessed: “I think that looking back

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