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The former prime minister also suggested that he agreed with Tory MPs who believed the virus was “nature’s way of dealing with old people”.that a former aide to Johnson believed the former PM had asked “why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon” in the early days of the pandemic.
In a further entry on December 12 that year, said: ” 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.”"Boris Johnson is obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going.
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