Irish Examiner view: UK Covid failings loom large

Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking part in media interviews during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Picture date: Tuesday October 5, 2021.

The newspaper headlines that greeted Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, at his holiday villa in Spain should have made for uncomfortable reading.

‘Covid: Elderly were just an afterthought’, raged the Daily Mail; ‘Deadliest of delays’, was the Mirror’s description; and ‘UK’s Covid failings among worst in history’, said The Guardian.