Boris Johnson plans to resign in 6 months because of lingering coronavirus health problems, according to Dominic Cummings father-in-law

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• Boris Johnson plans to resign in six months, according to the father-of-law of his chief adviser.
• Dominic Cummings' father-in-law Sir Humphry Wakefield reportedly said that the prime minister would quit early next year due to lingering health problems caused by the coronavirus.
• Johnson was admitted to an intensive care unit with COVID-19 in April but returned to work just weeks later.
• Wakefield compared Johnson's condition to an injured horse who returns to work too soon.
• "If you put a horse back to work when it's injured it will never recover," he is quoted as saying.
• A Downing Street source described the claim he plans to stand down as "utter nonsense."
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson plans to stand down in 6 months time because of lingering health problems caused by the coronavirus, the father-in-law of his closest aide Dominic Cummings, has reportedly said.

The Times of London diary reported a conversation between Sir Humphry Wakefield, father of Cummings' wife Mary, and Anna Silverman last week, in which he is alleged to have revealed that Johnson would resign early next year due to the lasting effects of his time in intensive care.

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