Dominic Cummings has doubled down on his claim the Government planned a ‘herd immunity’ strategy to allow Covid-19. He claimed there had been “panic” at the top of Government about the use of the phrase, fearing it would be a “comms disaster” - so it was “ditched and shifted to plan B - suppression.” Ministers and officials have today denied it had been official strategy to allow the virus to spread through the population, in the hope enough people would gain immunity to prevent a second spike in the Winter.
But in a flurry of tweets the PM’s former top aide said it had not been a secret at the time. “Herd immunity wasn’t ‘a secret strategy’, it was THE OFFICIAL PUBLIC EXPLAINED ON TV/RADIO STRATEGY!” He noted health officials, including
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