Brian May slams Boris Johnson’s handling of pandemic: ‘At every point he did too little too late’

Brian May said Boris Johnson did ‘too little too late’ (Picture: Getty Images)

Queen star Brian May has taken aim at Boris Johnson over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming it would have been ‘impossible’ for anyone to have made worse decisions.

The guitarist slammed the Prime Minister, as well as former Health Secretary Matt Hancock amid the pandemic.

‘At every point he did too little, too late,’ Brian said. ‘Hundreds, if not thousands of our relatives died because of bad advice and because of the bad decisions that Boris made with [Matt] Hancock and those other people.’

The 74-year-old added to The Independent: ‘If [Mr Johnson] had taken the precautions of shutting down the borders a year earlier, we wouldn’t have been in the situation we were.

‘And the fact that he’s willing to trade lives quite openly for economic gain, I find horrific… completely unacceptable.’

In the UK, more than 100,000 people have died of Covid-19.

He slammed the Prime Minister (Picture: Getty Images)

However, amid the successful rollout of the vaccine, hospitalisations have been dropping. NHS England said the number of coronavirus patients on English wards has dropped for the fourth day in a row, down to 4,879 as of 8am on Friday August 6.

Brian, who’s gearing up to release some solo music as Queen postpone their tour due to the pandemic, has had a difficult year after suffering a heart attack.

The We Will Rock You star explained that it didn’t do him ‘any harm’, and was just ‘40 minutes of pain’ in his chest.

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He later added that he is now back to his best and his keeping himself fit and healthy.

Most recently, the star’s London home was flooded and he was left ‘furious’ after many of his possessions were destroyed.

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