UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (File/Andrew Parson/i-Images)

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I joined Times Radio’s Darryl Morris in a 50-minute discussion early Friday about the week from the UK to Ukraine to China.

Listen from 2:06.29

We begin with a damning report into the Johnson Government’s mismanagement of the COVID pandemic in the UK, where more than 232,000 people died. I consider the belated response which killed an extra 23,000 Britons; the “toxic and chaotic” political culture; and the indecision and partying of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his colleagues throughout the crisis.

I dig deeper into the cynicism and damage of the Trump-Kremlin plan for Ukraine’s capitulation, asking Donald’s camp and Vlad will get away with it.

And I explain why UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is so eager to visit China, even as London has been in confusion over the possibility of Chinese spies, industrial espionage, and Beijing’s “super-embassy”.