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Johnson ‘mad’ if he did not think WhatsApps would become public – civil servant

Covid inquiry told of exchange between cabinet secretary and the then PM’s principal private secretary

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Boris Johnson asked why damage was being inflicted on the economy during the pandemic “for people who will die anyway soon” in a meeting with Rishi Sunak, the Covid inquiry was told on Monday.

At the start of what is set to be a bruising week for the former prime minister, with former political aides and senior civil servants to give evidence on his government’s handling of the pandemic, the diary of a former private secretary revealed the damaging remarks made in March 2020.

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