Johnson and Sunak were happy to let people die from Covid, inquiry hears

Then chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance and then British prime minister Boris Johnson ahead of a press conference in Downing Street, London, on Covid (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Boris Johnson wanted to let Covid “rip” despite the fact people would die, while Rishi Sunak also thought that was “okay”, the public inquiry has heard.

In further revelations from Patrick Vallance’s pandemic diaries, the inquiry heard of the “shambolic” day on October 25 2020, when the country was heading towards a second national lockdown.