BORIS Johnson offered to be injected with Covid-19 live on TV to ease public fears, a senior aide told the inquiry into the pandemic.
The then-Prime Minister later said he would rather “let the bodies pile high” than impose a second national lockdown, according to the former chief of staff Lord Edward Udny-Lister.
He added that Mr Johnson’s bizarre offer had been early in the pandemic “when Covid was not seen as the serious disease it subsequently became”.
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