How would he know 3 years ago that the statement was inaccurate? Seemed to me at the time that the government was making all the right noises, getting the medics and scientists in and doing daily briefings to the nation. Why didn't Whitty, Vallance and others take a stance and call out the nonsense that was going on?
I understand being embarrassed at how inept and crass it all appears to have been now that the full story it is coming out, but at the time, when we were treading unknown territory it did seem as if attempts were being made to deal with a situation other nations were also struggling to come to terms with.
Personally, and coming from one to the right of centre in general, is that BoJo should face the courts for he contempt he seems to have displayed (and others of course) for the public. He was and seems not to have understood that he was a public servant and the one real opportunity he had to show Churchillian leadership ended up with merely succeeding in failure.

