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Boris Johnson defends Covid lockdown, insists they did not plunge NHS into chaos
Boris Johnson defends Covid lockdown, insists they did not plunge NHS into chaos. In one of his final public appearances as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson dismissed recent suggestions by Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that the UK had gone too far in Covid lockdowns. Last week, Mr Sunak sensationally claimed it was an error to bow so heavily to SAGE, the Government’s influential scientific committee, whose doom-laden forecasts swayed Boris Johnson into a series of damaging Covid restrictions. In a blistering interview with the Spectator magazine, he also argued No10 failed to acknowledge economic trade-offs ‘from the beginning’. Despite helping to thwart the pandemic in the early days, the Government’s two-year cycle of curbs crippled the economy and saw NHS backlogs soar.