Boris Johnson wanted ‘massive fines’ for lockdown breaches, Covid inquiry hears

PM favoured a lot more punishments', Patrick Vallance wrote in diary in September 2020, three months after unlawful No 10 party

Boris Johnson pushed to punish people who aren't doing the right thing" and for massive fines" when it came to lockdown rules, the Covid-19 inquiry has heard.

An extract from the diaries of the government's chief scientific adviser at the time, Sir Patrick Vallance, recorded discussions he had with the then prime minister and health secretary in September 2020, when cases, admissions and deaths had all risen.