Inquiry sees verbatim messages from Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and Patrick Vallance
Boris Johnson’s indecision over the Covid pandemic and his attitude towards the fate of older people were laid bare in evidence to the Covid inquiry on Tuesday.
Johnson told Lee Cain, his director of communications, via WhatsApp in October 2020: “Jeeez. I must say I have been slightly rocked by some of the data on covid fatalities. The median age is 82-81 for men 85 for women. That is above life expectancy. So get COVID and live longer. Hardly anyone under 60 goes into hospital and of those virtually all survive. And I no longer buy all this nhs overwhelmed stuff. Folks I think we may need to recalibrate. There are max 3m in this country aged over 80”.
“At the moment the bubble thinks youve taken your eye off ball, youre happy to have useless fuckpigs in charge, and they think that a vast amount of the chaotic news on the front pages is coming from no 10 when in fact it’s coming from the Cabinet who are ferral – if you maintain your approach of last few months, your authority will be severely weakened and you will lose good people cos they dont want to be part of something that looks like mayhem. I urge you to ponder on this this week.
On 19 March 2020, Cummings told Cain: “Sonic just been to CABOFF on this shielding package, says clusterfuck, everyone babbling GDPR, arguing over who in charge of website etc, chaos. hes bringing em into no10 sounds like ill have to read riot act 215 ish”.
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