Boris Johnson has contracted Covid-19 at a time when the country needs him most – but the UK has survived with incapacitated leaders before
Cabinet government had for most of this week already been replaced by Zoom government, but the fact that Boris Johnson has contracted coronavirus, and so been forced to self-distance himself from the nation that he rules, raises awkward questions about how the government control room will operate at probably its most testing moment.
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