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"I'd first like to say how deeply sorry I am, for my part in those events"
Boris Johnson's former senior aide Martin Reynolds apologises at Covid inquiry for inviting dozens of people to "bring your own booze" party at Downing Street
Johnson was the most likely source of a quote in Shafi’s notes describing lockdowns as “killing the patient to tackle the tumour," he tells the inquiry.
Handwritten notes from a meeting between Johnson and the then chancellor Rishi Sunak record someone saying: “Large number of people who will die. Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon?”
Shafi says he “can’t say for sure” who said those words but thinks it was Johnson.
Shafi did admit that Johnson "didn't want a lockdown" initially, even as evidence mounted that the pandemic was taking hold. Johnson believed other steps, based on scientific advice, might be effective first, he argues.
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