Boris Johnson suggested he ‘thought covid was nature’s way of dealing with old people’

“Quite bonkers set of exchanges,” he said, referring to the “PM WhatsApp group”.

Former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance wrote in his diaries that Boris Johnson suggested he believed covid-19 was ‘Nature’s way of dealing with old people’ (James Manning/PA)

Boris Johnson suggested he believed the coronavirus pandemic was “Nature’s way of dealing with old people” as he resisted lockdown measures.

The UK government’s chief scientific adviser during covid-19, Patrick Vallance wrote that the then-prime minister suggested he may have agreed with Conservatives that the “whole thing is pathetic”.