“I want to pay my own thanks to the utterly brilliant doctors, leaders in their fields, men and women — but several of them for some reason called ‘Nick’ — who took some crucial decisions a few days ago for which I will be grateful for the rest of my life. Although the PM was administered an oxygen treatment, he did not require a ventilator or sedation, a spokesman said, although the government has declined to say what, if any, other treatments he received.