Boris Johnson denies UK failure in planning COVID school closures but apologizes for mistakes, P2
- Shidonna Raven
- Feb 23
- 1 min read
Updated October 21, 2025
Source: Associate Press
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The probe is expected to run through 2027. Its current focus concerns children.
Johnson denied a suggestion previously made by Jon Coles, a former director-general at the Education Department, that there had been an “extraordinary dereliction of duty” in not planning earlier for how to close schools.
Former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson testified last week that he had not asked school officials to prepare an assessment on closures in early 2020 because it wasn’t recommended at the time and Johnson hadn’t ordered it.
Williamson described an abrupt and “discombobulating” 24-hour period when he went from trying to keep schools open to announcing that they would close.
Johnson said the possibility of school closures had been discussed since February and he didn’t think he needed to instruct the Education Department to plan for them.
“Everybody understood that school closures was part of the tool kit that we might sadly have to use,” Johnson said. “We were being forced by events, by the spread of the disease, to deploy that solution much earlier than we wanted.’
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