It's some of the lowest levels of deaths in six months.
He said: ‘No, but I think the important thing I think people want us to get on and do as a Government is to make sure that the lockdowns work.’
The PM allegedly said the remark in a fiery outburst after reluctantly implementing the second national lockdown at the end of last year.No 10 labelled the claim ‘just another lie’ but ITV’s Robert Peston has come forward with two ‘ear witnesses’ who ‘corroborated’ the Mail’s account. The journalist wrote: ‘I am told [Boris Johnson] shouted it in his study just after he agreed to the second lockdown “in a rage”.
‘The doors to the Cabinet room and outer office were allegedly open and supposedly a number of people heard. ‘I am bothering to repeat this assertion about what the Prime Minister said because two eyewitnesses – or perhaps I should say “ear witnesses” – have corroborated the Daily Mail’s account to me.The UK has the world’s fifth largest official COVID-19 death toll, with 127,681 deaths, after the United States, Brazil, Mexico and India, according to John Hopkins University of Medicine.
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