Boris Johnson has denied his government’s mistakes during the pandemic were to blame for excess deaths.
Johnson, who is facing the Covid inquiry for the first time today and tomorrow, said excess deaths were in fact down to an elderly population and a densely populated country in the UK, not government decisions.
“Do you accept that overall government decision-making, not the pandemic…led materially to there being a greater number of excess deaths in the United Kingdom than might otherwise have been the case?” counsel to the inquiry Hugo Keith asked Johnson.
