No wonder Cummings is disliked.
"Downing Street has rejected as “a highly defamatory fabrication” a claim that Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, initially argued against strict measures to contain coronavirus in a view summarised as “if that means some pensioners die, too bad”.
In an unusual on-the-record denunciation, a Downing Street spokesman said the claims about Cummings’ viewpoint, made in
a Sunday Times article, had not been put to No 10 in advance and contained “invented” quotes.
The report claimed that at one private event at the end of February, Cummings outlined then government’s strategy at the time in a way that was summarised by some present as “
herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad.”
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