Pressure mounts on Johnson over alleged ‘let the bodies pile high’ remarks

Tory sources have lent weight to claim PM said he'd prefer thousands of deaths to another lockdown

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Boris Johnson faced mounting pressure on Monday night as Conservative insiders added weight to claims that the prime minister said he would rather see bodies pile up than order another lockdown.

Faced with fury from relatives of the bereaved, Johnson and senior ministers emphatically denied he said no more fucking lockdowns - let the bodies pile high in their thousands" after reluctantly approving a second England-wide lockdown late last year.