COVID-19: Boris Johnson rejected fall lockdown because those deceased were “all over 80,” Dominic Cummings said | UK News

Boris Johnson did not want to tighten restrictions last fall because “the people who die are almost all over 80,” said Dominic Cummings.

In an interview with the BBC, the former senior adviser to the Prime Minister alleges that Mr Johnson has said in leaked messages that he no longer believes that ‘all these things overwhelmed by the NHS’ refrain from imposing the second England lockdown.

Mr. Cummings has repeatedly accused the prime minister of acting too slowly in decreeing the second lockdown which came into effect in early November.

And in his first interview since leaving Downing Street after an argument last November, the Prime Minister former senior assistant continues his assault on the Prime Minister by accusing his former boss of putting his “own political interests ahead of people’s lives”.

Mr Cummings leaks WhatsApp messages apparently sent by the Prime Minister on October 15 in which he says the government should “recalibrate” its thinking on imposing another lockdown because “hardly anyone under the age of 60 is going to the hospital”.

“I have to say I was slightly shaken by some of the data on COVID deaths. The median age is 82 to 81 for men and 85 for women. life expectancy So get COVID and live longer.

“Hardly anyone under the age of 60 goes to the hospital (4%) and of those pretty much all survive. And I don’t buy all this NHS overwhelmed stuff anymore. People, I think we may have to. -be recalibrated “, we read.

Another adds: “There are a maximum of 3 million people in this country over the age of 80. It shows that we are not going for a nationwide lockdown.”

Mr Cummings describes Mr Johnson’s attitude that “part of everything is absurd and the locks don’t work anyway and part of good is terrible but the people who are …