Incumbent PM made joke about Rishi Sunak’s department because of its focus on lifting restrictions, according to diary entries

ncumbent PM made joke about Rishi Sunak’s department because of its focus on lifting restrictions, according to diary entries

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    Boris Johnson asked if £37bn NHS Test and Trace was ‘achieving anything’

    The former prime minister made the comment in handwritten notes on a report from the Cabinet Office’s Covid taskforce on 28 October 2020, which were today shown to the Covid inquiry.

    Witness Edward Udny-Lister also claimed Johnson did make the infamous comment that he’d rather “let the bodies pile high” than enforce another lockdown. Dominic Cummings first alleged the then-PM had said this in 2021, but Johnson denied it.