Boris Johnson in fresh row over ‘bodies pile high’ comment
Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is embroiled in fresh controversy after he reportedly said “bodies could pile high” during a preliminary discussion about a possible third lockdown in autumn 2020.
According to the Daily Mail (April 26), the PM said he prefers to “let bodies pile high in their thousands” rather than order a third lockdown which would damage the economy and prove unpopular with the business community.
Johnson is alleged to have made the comments at the end of October last year when a second lockdown was imposed on England following a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections.
Downing Street has strongly denied the PM made the incendiary comment, insisting it was “just another lie”.
"This is untrue and the PM has denied it… I'm not aware of anyone else making that statement", the PM’s spokesman maintained.
The story has also been dismissed as “not true” by Defense Secretary Ben Wallace when he was he was pressed on the issue earlier on Monday (April 26).
However, the state broadcaster BBC is claiming that “sources familiar with the talks” have confirmed that the PM had indeed made the deeply damaging remarks.
Labor Party leader, Keir Starmer, said he was “astonished” by the reports.
"Everybody would be deeply concerned, not least all those families who have lost someone in the pandemic", Starmer added.
This latest controversy comes on the heels of a developing row over the source of funds used by the PM to refurnish his flat at 10 Downing Street.
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