Boris Johnson asked “why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon” in a March 2020 meeting with Rishi Sunak, the Covid inquiry was told today.
The claim, branded “horrific” by bereaved families, emerged from notebooks kept by Imran Shafi, Johnson’s private secretary for public service.
Shafi was quizzed this afternoon by Hugo Keith KC. His notes from the same “Cx [chancellor] bilat” meeting record someone, also believed to be Johnson, as having said: “We are killing the patient to tackle the tumour.”
