The Prime Minister struggled to pronounce the name of a life-saving coronavirus drug in his latest gaffe. Boris Johnson stumbled about six times as he tried to say 'tocilizumab' live on air in tonight's Downing Street briefing.
Determined to get it right, he appealed for help from England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty, asking "what's the name of that drug again?" "Let's get this right," the PM said, as he repeatedly got it wrong.
The PM grinned sheepishly as he butchered the name of the drug. He then spent a considerable part of the briefing distracted by the name of the breakthrough treatment, after pausing to ask: “What’s the name of that drug again, Chris?” ‘Tocilizumab,’ Prof Whitty tells him before muttering quietly: “It