Responsibility for any “significant decisions” facing the government was transferred to Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab within 24 hours of the start of the operation. Johnson was taken to an NHS hospital in London at around 6am on Monday and was put under anesthesia shortly afterwards for surgery, which No. 10 described as “minor”. The operation – which had been planned for some time and was not emergency – was described as successful and Mr Johnson returned to Downing Street around 10am, where he spent the day resting. The prime minister’s official spokesman said: “He went to the hospital around 6 in the morning and the operation became the first thing this morning. “He was back on Downing Street shortly after 10am.” Asked how the prime minister felt, the spokesman said he had not spoken to him since returning to Downing Street but was resting at home. The timetable for Mr Johnson’s return to work will depend on how he feels, but he planned to chair the cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, according to the spokesman. Asked who was responsible for the UK’s nuclear accounts during the process, the spokesman said Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and Secretary of State Simon Case were aware in advance that Mr Johnson was in control of “Relatively short period of time”. Mr. Johnson’s sinus problem was not understood to be related to Covid’s disease in 2020. The prime minister spent three nights in intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in April 2020, saying later that doctors were preparing to announce his death from coronavirus. Doctors gave him “liters and liters of oxygen,” he said, and there were “emergency plans” in case the worst happened. After a fortnight of recovery from the virus and just two days after returning to full-time work, Carrie Simmons’ then-fiancée gave birth to their son, Wilfred. They were named after their grandparents and two doctors – Dr. Nick Price and Prof. Nick Hart – who helped save Mr Johnson’s life.
