![]() It goes without saying that even the suggestion Johnson used the words would cause enormous offense to a nation that has lost at least 127,000 people to Covid-19, something the opposition Labour Party clearly understands. Johnson, Downing Street and senior government figures have aggressively denied that these words were used and, not unreasonably, pointed out that the Prime Minister implemented that lockdown and locked down again in January amid rising cases of new variants. The explosive allegation was made in the Conservative-supporting Daily Mail newspaper, citing unnamed sources, claiming that Johnson made the comments in October 2020 after England’s second lockdown was imposed. ![]() On Monday, he was forced to deny saying that he would rather “let the bodies pile high in their thousands” than impose another lockdown. The latter of these is by far the most immediate and dangerous for Johnson. ![]() The British Prime Minister and his government are currently engulfed in numerous grubby scandals, a war of words with Johnson’s former closest ally and a potentially catastrophic allegation that he was happy to let people die to avoid putting England into a second pandemic lockdown. What a difference a couple of weeks makes. ![]() It was only two weeks ago that Boris Johnson looked set for a triumphant spring, as the UK’s rapid vaccine rollout meant his country could put the nightmare of the past year-and-a-half behind it. ![]()
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