Boris Johnson Humphry Wakefield, Johnson plans to quit as PM in six months

 Boris Johnson Humphry Wakefield,  Johnson plans to quit as PM in six months.

Downing Street has been forced to deny a claim that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to quit the top job in six months time due to his health. The source of the claim? None other than the father-in-law of Johnson’s senior strategist, Dominic Cummings. His wife’s father is Sir Humphry Wakefield of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland (near Bamburgh), and he is said to have told a holidaymaker who visited the castle that the PM is still suffering from the long-term effects of Covid-19.

The octogenarian baronet, whose daughter Mary Wakefield is Commissioning Editor at the Spectator magazine, likened the premier to a horse that is made to work while injured, according to the Times Diary. ‘If you put a horse back to work when it’s injured it will never recover,’ it reported him as saying. Number 10 have dismissed the claim as ‘total nonsense’.

The claim isn’t total rubbish since many of those who have had the virus report that they are still suffering from the lingering effects of its attack on their lungs months after leaving their sick beds. Boris Johnson was elevated from hospital to intensive care in early April as a result of contracting the virus. Following the birth of his son, he chose the middle name Nicholas after the two doctors who saved Boris’ life when he was in ICU.

Sir Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield is a friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, an antiques expert and keen horseman even beyond the midsummer of his life. He was educated at Gordounston school in Scotland, where the Prince of Wales was later educated, followed by Cambridge University. In 2014 he appeared on Channel 4’s reality TV programme Can’t Get The Staff, that criticised how tricky it was to find the right kind of help. Chillingham Castle is Grade I star listed and dates back to the 13th century, Sir Humphry pitches it to visitors as Britain’s most haunted castle.

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