Sinking without trace: rightwing press turns on Boris Johnson

The coronavirus crisis has a formerly friendly media questioning the PM’s leadershipCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“Where’s Boris?” asked this week’s Spectator, the weekly magazine the prime minister once edited and from which Johnson might once have expected a better press had it not been for the coronavirus crisis.With a front cover image featuring a distant blond dot on a tiny boat bobbing rudderless and oarless on a stormy sea, the message of chaos and drift from the title was emphatic – a criticism of the prime minister’s leadership in the battle against the pandemic that is being replicated across an increasingly sceptical rightwing media. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/18/sinking-without-trace-rightwing-press-turns-on-boris-johnson-coronavirus #boris_johnson #politics #coronavirus_outbreak #health_policy #media #health #society #uk_news