Graeme Demianyk is a news editor at HuffPost UK, and is based in New York. As well as being night new editor, he has written extensively on the Grenfell tower disaster and the UK's housing crisis.
pandemic when people “will die anyway soon”, a one-time aide of the former prime minister has told the public inquiry into the UK’s handling of the outbreak.
The claim emerged when Imran Shafi, Johnson’s former private secretary, was on Monday questioned about his handwritten notes from a March 2020 meeting between the-then PM andInquiry counsel Hugo Keith KC read out sections of the note, including the line: “Large people who will die - why are we destroying economy for people who will die anyway soon?”Asked who said the words, Shafi replied: “I can’t say for sure, I think it was the former prime minister.
Johnson was opposed to a lockdown because of potential negative effects on the economy, people’s mental health and other factors, Shafi had said earlier.Asked about the term “bed blockers”, which also featured in the note, Shafi said: “I think that was a term that was also widely used in DHSC and the NHS of people who didn’t need to be in hospital.”
The phrase “we are killing the patient to tackle the tumour” also featured in the note about the meeting. Imran Shafi, former private secretary to former prime minister Boris Johnson, arrives to give a statement to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry at Dorland House in London.It came as advisers to the government were grilled by lawyers as the latest part of the public inquiry.Case, the UK’s top civil servant, told colleagues Johnson “cannot lead” during the pandemic, and “changed strategic direction every day”.
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