Premium: Boris leads UK out of pandemic, ends mask-wearing, abandons vaccine passports

Towards the end of last year, British prime minister Boris Johnson ignored shrills from the UK media and its over exposed punditry by refusing to take his country into another Covid lockdown.

Instead of following "experts" warning about over-run hospitals and escalating deaths, Johnson heeded information about Omicron emerging from South Africa and acted rationally. It was the right call. His reward, however, has been a ratcheting up of attempts to eject him on the basis having been at a social gathering during a lockdown.

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