{"id":122108,"date":"2023-12-07T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=122108"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:49:07","slug":"boris-johnson-clashes-with-covid-inquiry-kc-over-alleged-let-it-rip-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/boris-johnson-clashes-with-covid-inquiry-kc-over-alleged-let-it-rip-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson clashes with Covid Inquiry KC over alleged \u2018let it rip comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boris Johnson says ‘this is all rubbish’ when asked about his let it rip comment<\/h3>\n

A shirty Boris Johnson told the Covid Inquiry to focus on what he actually said and did during the pandemic, rather than relying on \u201cpeople\u2019s jottings from meetings\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Johnson got visibly irritated with the inquiry\u2019s top KC, Hugo Keith, during his second day giving evidence to the statutory probe.<\/p>\n

Mr Keith read out diary entries from Patrick Vallance, which claimed that he had discussions with the PM about \u201cletting it rip\u201d.<\/p>\n

The former PM hit back, arguing the phrase was \u201cin common parlance at the time and remains so\u201d, nor did he come up with it himself.<\/p>\n

While Mr Keith continued reading extracts from Sir Patrick\u2019s diary, Mr Johnson was seen muttering \u201cthis is all rubbish!\u201d while shaking his head.<\/p>\n

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Mr Keith accused the former Prime Minister of secretly holding views that people should die \u201cwhen they have reached their time anyway\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Johnson hit back, thumping the table, and refuted the \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d implications the inquiry was trying to draw from Sir Patrick\u2019s diary entries.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cMy position was that we had to save human life at all ages, and that was the objective of the strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the way, that is what we did; if you look at what we actually did – never mind the accounts that you have culled from people\u2019s jottings from meetings that I have been in – if you look at what I actually said and what I actually did, and there is abundant quotation from me – millions of words that I spoke in parliament or in press conferences – we went into lockdown as soon as we could first time around\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that it \u201cdoes not do justice to what we did, our thoughts, our feelings, my thoughts, my feelings, to say that we were remotely reconciled to fatalities across the country, nor that I believe it was acceptable to \u2018let it rip\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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