{"id":114060,"date":"2023-10-31T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/boris-johnson-was-obsessed-with-older-people-accepting-their-fate-covid-inquiry-hears\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:01:07","slug":"boris-johnson-was-obsessed-with-older-people-accepting-their-fate-covid-inquiry-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/boris-johnson-was-obsessed-with-older-people-accepting-their-fate-covid-inquiry-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson &#8216;was obsessed with older people accepting their fate&#8217;, Covid inquiry hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/LLXkY7R2bgo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Boris Johnson 'was obsessed with older people accepting their fate', Covid inquiry hears\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LLXkY7R2bgo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister told senior advisers that the coronavirus pandemic was &#8216;just nature\u2019s way of dealing with old people&#8217; and he was &#8216;no longer buying&#8217; the fact the NHS was overwhelmed during the pandemic, the Covid inquiry heard during Lee Cain&#8217;s evidence session. <\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s chief scientific adviser at the time, Sir Patrick Vallance, wrote in one of his notebooks in August 2020 that Johnson was &#8216;obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p> UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\n Boris Johnson favoured \u2018older people accepting their fate\u2019, Covid inquiry hears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former prime minister told senior advisers that the coronavirus pandemic was &#8216;just nature\u2019s way of dealing with old people&#8217; and he was &#8216;no longer buying&#8217; the fact the NHS was overwhelmed during the pandemic, the Covid inquiry heard during Lee Cain&#8217;s evidence session. 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