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Covid bereaved family Boris Johnson has been accused of being “beyond contempt” after his column was used A national newspaper ridiculed those “still quarreling” about the deaths. in the pandemic
The disgraced former Prime Minister has refused to apologize 23,000 additional Covid deaths He has been accused of delaying action, but instead he launched a scathing attack on the pandemic investigation itself.
The Covid inquiry report, chaired by the Baroness, a former Court of Appeal judge, faulted Mr Johnson and other senior Tory ministers at the time. heather hallett For the “toxic and chaotic” culture in Downing Street during the pandemic.
They concluded that unnecessary delays in lockdown led to an additional 23,000 deaths and families of those who died have said they are considering taking legal action against Mr Johnson.
But after initially keeping quiet the former Prime Minister has used a footnote in his column in the Daily Mail to attack Baroness Hallett and the inquiry she set up.
“Have these people lost their minds?” He has written. He accused the former judge of being “breathtakingly incoherent” and “hopelessly inconsistent”.
“More than three years after the pandemic ended, they are still quarreling over what went wrong,” he said.
The comments have angered campaigners who are demanding justice for people who have died needlessly during the pandemic.
A spokesperson for the Covid Bereaved Families Group said: “It is beyond contempt that Boris Johnson has chosen to respond to the Covid inquiry by attacking Covid bereaved people for “making a fuss” about the death of our loved one.
“Instead of showing regret, remorse or even an apology, Johnson is using newspaper columns to do what he could not do under oath in the Covid investigation – twist the truth, promote debunked myths and ignore the facts.
“But the truth, with which Mr Johnson has never had a close relationship, is now clear. He was responsible for thousands of avoidable deaths. The one promise he kept was to ‘let the bodies pile up’.
“He has no place in public life and we are again calling on Boris Johnson to lose all his former prime ministerial privileges following the investigation report.”
His reaction came after the former prime minister made surprising comments in his weekly column.
Mr Johnson criticized: “Some judge has spent a whopping £200 million on an investigation, and what is the result?
“She seems, if anything, to want more lockdowns. She seems to hold the previous Tory government to account for not locking down strictly or quickly enough – just when the rest of the world was thinking the lockdowns had perhaps been done too much.”
He continued: “Bozhe moi, you say, wiping away tears of laughter. Oh my God, these Britskis!”
Instead, he made it clear that his biggest regret was shutting down the country completely.
“A thought crosses your mind for a moment, that in the future you could easily put the whole of Britain into state-enforced paralysis, simply by convincing them that they have to take precautions against a new Russian-origin virus.
“This is the argument of Baroness Hallett’s report, and I’m afraid it’s not just in Moscow that people are banging their heads, but around the world.
“To the best of my knowledge, all other countries have completed their official investigations regarding Covid long ago.”
He said: “There are only two big questions that need proper answers if we are to prevent a disaster like Covid from happening again, and those are: How exactly did it emerge?
“And to what extent did non-pharmaceutical interventions – lockdowns, social distancing, etc. – make enough of a difference to the pandemic to justify the enormous social, economic, educational and psychological damage caused by these measures?
“On the first question, the origins of Covid, the report is silent. On the second great question – which is of real strategic importance to this country – Lady Hallett is disappointingly incoherent.”
He claimed that the figure of 23,000 excess deaths, originally made by Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, was “hypothetical and unproven”, arguing that his “hysterical predictions were largely discredited at the time.”
He claimed that allegations of causing additional deaths were “completely false”.
In his defence, he said that when the country was under complete lockdown on 23 March 2020, he had started taking measures from 12 March.
He suggested: “I think it’s absolutely clear. Lady Hallett has been unable or unwilling to address the really important questions.
“So, faced with the suffering of Covid victims and their families – and their entirely understandable desire for some kind of catharsis – they have decided that the best thing to do is to give a discretionary kicking to the Tory administration, which no one except me has much interest in defending, and move on.”