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Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson is ‘marooned above the shop’ NewsColony From the plumped up pillows of his king-size bed, through the tall windows above the famous rose garden, he can look down on the vast emptiness of Horse Guards Parade. Closer to home he can see the couriers bringing government papers, the delivery men with their supplies and the to-ing and fro-ing of visitors. But while there is urgency and vitality all around him, Boris Johnson , locked in the biggest peace time crisis in British history, is now a prisoner of Downing Street – isolated from his loved ones, his ministers and his staff. Within hours of the diagnosis that he was suffering from coronavirus , the first world leader to contract the illness, the Prime Minister had quarantined himself in the spacious flat above Number 11. With its five bedrooms, playroom and drawing rooms that lead off the double-height atrium, there is plenty of space. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday morning he had t...