Questions focussed on Johnson’s actions from the summer of 2020 through to January 2022. Attention was drawn repeatedly to the influence of “economic” concerns on government decision making.
When Johnson voiced his indifference to mass death, declaring “Let the bodies pile high in their thousands!”, he spoke as the authentic representative of the ruling class and its political and scientific flunkeys.
Lord Sumption, who sat as a senior judge on the Supreme Court between 2012 and 2018, said the inquiry s format is unlikely to include substantial questioning about lockdowns themselves.
Boris Johnson fell silent during the second day of his Covid Inquiry grilling as he was forced to listen to evidence of him wanting to let the virus 'rip' in autumn 2020