The Covid inquiry reveals that Boris Johnson was obsessed with older people accepting their fate during the pandemic to avoid lockdowns. The Government's chief scientific adviser wrote about Johnson's views in his diaries, highlighting a disagreement between the Prime Minister and his party.
BORIS Johnson was"obsessed with older people accepting their fate" during the pandemic to avoid lockdowns, the Covid inquiry has heard.
The adviser wrote in August 2020 that Johnson was “obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and theThen, in December 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Johnson said he believed he had been “acting early” and that the “public are with him ”.“He says his party ‘thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just Nature’s way of dealing with old people – and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them. A lot of moderate people think it is a bit too much’.
Counsel to the inquiry Andrew O’Connor asked: “And was this one of the factors that underpinned the Prime Minister’s indecision later in 2020, September/October time, whether or not to have a circuit-breaker lockdown?”“I think, if he was in his previous role as a journalist, he would probably have been writing articles saying we should open up the beaches and how we should get ahead and be getting back.
The diary note from Imran Shafi, which he attributed to Johnson, stated: “We’re killing the patient to tackle the tumour. Large ppl who will die, why are we destroying economy for people who will die anyway soon.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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