The Welsh secretary says there were concerns Boris Johnson would die when he was ill with Covid-19.
Senior politicians feared Prime Minister Boris Johnson might die when he was admitted to intensive care with Covid, the Welsh Secretary has said. Simon Hart said there was "a real feeling that we could wake up the next morning and find he was dead" when Mr Johnson was ill last April.
He added it had showed him that "nobody was out of reach" from Covid.In the days prior to being admitted, the prime minister tried to "soldier on" despite being obviously ill, Mr Hart told the BBC's Walescast podcast. He said although Mr Johnson was looking "quite cheerful", he could remember telling a colleague they needed to finish the meeting soon because he was "looking rough". The Welsh secretary also defended his boss from accusations he responded too slowly or missed key government meetings early in the pandemic. Instead, he credited the "unbreakable optimism" and "extraordinary stamina" of a leader who was determined "to try to save as many lives as we can". "It was a very sobering moment [when Mr Johnson was in intensive care] for all concerned - because it just reinforced that this thing knew no boundaries and nobody was outside its reach."The drama of last spring seems a long way from the interview at Pendine Sands holiday park, in Mr Hart's Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire constituency. He won the seat, where he and his wife Abigail raised their two children, at the 2010 General Election. However, he had operated in political circles before that, and as chief executive of the Countryside Alliance he lobbied against Labour's ban on fox hunting.More from Walescast
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