Lord Edward Lister, who worked in Number 10 between 2019 and 2021, described Johnson's comments as "unfortunate" as he gave evidence to the Covid Inquiry today. "The Prime Minister suggested to senior civil servants and advisors that he wanted to be injected with Covid-19 to demonstrate to the public that it did not pose a threat," Lord Lister said in his witness statement.
"Pressed on whether the Government already knowing it was a deadly disease before then, Lord Lister continued: "We were still living in the forlorn hope that it wasn't going to come - it was wrong. "I fully accept it's a comment that shouldn't have been made, but it was made in the heat of the moment, that's all.
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