The Covid-19 alternate UK timeline
Imagine what would have happened in the last year had Boris Johnson not been our prime minister. How different would it have been if David Cameron had still been in charge? Here I imagine such a scenario. I hold no special candle for Cameron although I realise the following will come across a paean to him, which it is not intended to be. It is just that I don’t think there is an alternate universe scenario, out of the trillions available, where Boris Johnson, a blundering, mendacious authoritarian, does a good job. Anyway, here we go on a road to the multiverse… January 2020 David Cameron, still prime minister of Great Britain after wisely choosing to remain neutral in the Brexit debate of 2016 and therefore not having to resign when the country voted to leave the EU, receives urgent briefings about a new virus that appears to have originated in China. Not distracted by dealing with the fall out of cheating on his wife for at least the fifth time, he gives great attention to the pro