A former adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, criticized his handling of the pandemic, accusing him of having initially sought “herd immunity”, three days before an appearance before a parliamentary committee that is announced explosive for the government.
In a series of tweets posted Saturday night, Dominic Cummings stated that when the pandemic appeared in early 2020, the executive’s plan was to let the virus spread so that a majority of the population would develop resistance after contracting the virus. disease.
According to him, this “herd immunity” strategy was only abandoned in early March 2020 after Downing Street was warned that it would lead to “catastrophe”.
Questioned this Sunday by the BBC, Interior Minister Priti Patel declared that herd immunity was not “at all” the government’s initial objective.
“Never” was herd immunity a strategy, the general director of the British health security agency, Jenny Harries, agreed in the same medium.
The Dominic Cummings attacks come ahead of a parliamentary appearance on Wednesday before a House committee tasked with studying the government’s response to the pandemic.
Last month, Cummings, who left Downing Street at the end of 2020, and was the mastermind of the victorious campaign for Brexit in 2016, published a lengthy text questioning the integrity and competence of Boris Johnson.
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