Boris Johnson complained that Covid wasn't really 'killing many people' any more - just weeks before the deadly second wave of the virus, it has been claimed.
Extracts from a memoir of the pandemic by disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock recall a text exchange with the former PM in August o2020.
According to Hancock, Johnson sent texts in the early morning, suggesting the government couldn't "justify the continuing paralysis" because "the virus isn’t really killing many people any more."