Boris Johnson denies tens of thousands of Covid victims died needlessly and says lockdowns were balancing act as he savages Cummings's claims that 'don't bear any relation to reality'
Boris Johnson dismissed Dominic Cummings as a fantasist as he denied that complacency over the pandemic had cost tens of thousands of lives
Cummings claimed the PM is 'unfit' to lead the country after handling of Covid
Johnson hit back, suggesting that many of the claims made by Cummings were little more than fantasy