Officials gave a 'more positive impression' of the then PM's health because they were concerned that terrorists or hostile states could exploit an apparent power vacuum, it could cause chaos on financial markets and panic the public
Officials gave a ‘more positive impression’ of the then PM’s health because they were concerned that terrorists or hostile states could exploit an apparent power vacuum, it could cause chaos on financial markets and panic the public
Unlike the United States, where the 25th amendment enshrines a formal delegation of powers to the vice president if the president is incapacitated, the UK has no formal constitutional plan for this scenario. She admits that officials were “making it up as we went along” about who held the reins of power and that so many key players in No10 were sick and/or isolating with the virus during that period – including Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, chief medical officer Chris Whitty, health secretary Matt Hancock,MacNamara says there was a “nervousness” inside No10 that “if the wider public were aware that so many decision makers and senior civil servants were incapacitated this would impact on...
At the morning briefing to lobby journalists on Monday 6 April, his spokesman James Slack said the PM “remained in charge of the government, was receiving updates in hospital and was continuing to receive a box” but the reality, MacNamara says, was he was “very ill”: “This was technically accurate but right on the edge of what was comfortable. It was a lot to ask of James Slack in particular…
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