Bereaved families say pain of Covid deaths brought back during Johnson Partygate grilling

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Bereaved families say pain of Covid deaths brought back during Johnson Partygate grilling
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“It’s hard because I do think back to how there were six people at my dad’s funeral” 'Just hold your hands up and admit responsibility for once' 🔴 Covid bereaved slam Johnson as he faces PrivilegesCommittee

defending himself against the cross-party committee’s charges.

Rivka Gottlieb, a spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, said: “He claims it was ‘his job’ to say goodbye to colleagues, that he ‘would have needed an electric fence’ around him to stick to the rules and that social distancing only applied ‘when possible’.

Ms Mayhew said: “He was the prime minister, the buck stops with him, surely. He knows what’s right and what’s wrong. If he doesn’t, he shouldn’t have been in that position.

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