Covid: Boris Johnson resisted autumn lockdown as only over-80s dying – Dominic Cummingson July 19, 2021 at 9:00 pm

Boris Johnson also questioned whether the NHS would be overwhelmed, his former aide tells the BBC.

“What I should have done is either just resigned and said nothing about anything,” he said, “or I should have spoken to my family and said, ‘Listen, we’re just gonna have to come clean about the whole thing.'”