Johnson: Inject Me With Covid On Live TV
Daily Mirror UK|November 08, 2023
‘PM also said: Let the bodies pile high’
SOPHIE WINGATE, DOMINIC MCGRATH and HARRY STEDMAN
Johnson: Inject Me With Covid On Live TV

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”.

This story is from the November 08, 2023 edition of Daily Mirror UK.

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