Boris Johnson asked: 'Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway?' during Covid

Boris Johnson asked “why are we destroying [the] economy for people who will die anyway soon” shortly before announcing the first Covid-19 lockdown, contemporaneous notes suggest.

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