'Another scare story, like the swine flu': Boris Johnson refuses to deny Cummings evidence – video

Boris Johnson has refused to deny that he initially dismissed coronavirus as 'another scare story' in a prime minister's questions dominated by claims made by his former chief adviser Dominic Cummings.

The PMQs session took place immediately after the first two-and-a-half-hour session of testimony by Cummings to MPs, with Keir Starmer quizzing the prime minister repeatedly about the allegations

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