Boris "Bozo" Johnson asked top scientists if you could kill Covid by blowing a 'special hairdryer' up your nose.
The former PM allegedly sent a YouTube video of a man demonstrating this to a WhatsApp group that included Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.
He asked the men, serving as England’s chief scientific adviser and chief medical officer, what they thought, according to Dominic "Knobo" Cummings. Bozo’s former chief adviser turned nemesis made a series of claims in his witness statement handed to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
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He wrote: "A low point was when he circulated a video of a guy blowing a special hair dryer up his nose 'to kill Covid' and asked the CSA and CMO what they thought."
Knobo also claimed Bozo had asked him to find a 'dead cat' to get the coronavirus pandemic off the front pages as he was 'sick' of it. A so-called dead cat strategy is the circulation of striking claims in order to divert attention away from an unwanted story.
Knobo said that Bozo had asked him in autumn 2020 to 'put your campaign head back on and figure out how we dead-cat Covid'. The adviser, who worked with Bozo on the Brexit campaign, says he replied that "no campaign could 'dead-cat Covid'".
Knobo also repeated a suggestion that Bozo was working on a biography of William Shakespeare rather than the pandemic on a two-week holiday in February 2020.
"He was extremely distracted," Knobo wrote, adding: "He had a divorce to finalise and was grappling with financial problems from that plus his girlfriend’s spending plans for the No 10 flat.
"An ex-girlfriend was making accusations about him in the media. His current girlfriend wanted to finalise the announcement of their engagement. He said he wanted to work on his Shakespeare book."
Representatives of Bozo have been contacted for comment.
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