Boris Johnson’s second day at the Covid inquiry: key points
by Matthew Weaver and Ben Quinn from World news | The Guardian on (#6GZDG)
The former PM addressed Partygate, letting it rip' and eat out to help out' in his second day of evidence
Boris Johnson has continued to defend his handling of the pandemic on his second day of giving evidence to the Covid inquiry. He expressed surprise that scientists were not consulted about the eat out to help out" scheme, sought to justify having said older people should accept their fate", and claimed that characterisations of the Partygate scandal were a travesty of the truth".
We should have thought about how No 10 parties would look,' Johnson told colleagues
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