Boris Johnson considered invading the Netherlands to seize Covid vaccines during the height of the pandemic, he has revealed. Writing in his memoirs, to be published next month, the former prime minister said he commissioned the Armed Forces to consider whether an aquatic raid on a warehouse in Leiden was possible.

Arguably the worst Prime Minister the UK has ever suffered, Boris Johnson has now released a new memoir, in which he happily admits to a 'nuts idea' he dreamt up during his shambolic handling of the C

According to The Guardian, Johnson has admitted this in an extract of his memoir, “Unleashed,” parts of which were recently published in the Daily Mail. As Johnson writes in his book, the intention was that the army would cross the Channel with small boats to reach the factory in Leiden where the vaccines were stored.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson considered launching an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in the Netherlands to retrieve Covid vaccine doses amid a row with Europe, according to an extract from his memoir.

Boris Johnson has said he is no longer sure about "medieval" lockdowns as the former Prime Minister becomes increasingly convinced Covid was a "botched experiment" from a Chinese lab. Johnson, 60, described pandemic restrictions as "literally medieval in their savagery and consequences" as he likened himself to King Canute and questioned whether