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PM also denies delaying second lockdown because Covid was ‘only killing 80-year-olds’
Boris Johnson has refused to deny that he initially dismissed coronavirus as “another scare story” and that he delayed a second lockdown because Covid was “only killing 80-year-olds”, in a prime minister’s questions dominated by claims made by his former chief adviser Dominic Cummings.
Taking place immediately after the first two-and-a-half-hour session of often extraordinary testimony to MPs by Johnson’s former chief adviser, Keir Starmer quizzed the prime minister repeatedly about Cummings’ allegations.
