• The AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID was at the centre of an argument over exports with the EU at the time. Former ministers who had worked with Johnson at the time suggested to The Observer that the former prime minister may simply have put forward such proposals as a joke with the intention of including the proposal in his eventual memoirs.
[After consultations] I secretly agreed with what they all thought, but did not want to say aloud: that the whole thing was nuts.
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[After consultations] I secretly agreed with what they all thought, but did not want to say aloud: that the whole thing was nuts." in the context of "Passages from Unleashed, as cited in "Boris Johnson: we considered 'aquatic raid' on Netherlands to seize Covid vaccine", The Guardian (28 September 2024)
• The AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID was at the centre of an argument over exports with the EU at the time. Former ministers who had worked with Johnson at the time suggested to The Observer that the former prime minister may simply have put forward such proposals as a joke with the intention of including the proposal in his eventual memoirs." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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