As a rule of thumb, you can pretty much guarantee that for everything that Boris Johnson says, the opposite will turn out to be true. In July, Boris promised the country would be back to normal by Christmas. In his statement to the Commons on the latest national lockdown, Johnson insisted the virus would be beaten by March. Not that it was a national lockdown, mind, because Boris had promised there would not be another national lockdown. With Labour having promised Johnson the necessary votes on Wednesday, most of the rest of the session was a free for all with the prime minister as the fall guy.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2020 20:15 UTC