Downing Street has denied claims that Dominic Cummings argued against draconian measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus even if it meant that pensioners would die.
The Prime Minister’s controversial top aide was reported as initially backing a strategy that health chiefs believe could have resulted in half a million UK deaths.
But a No 10 spokesman rejected the claim as a “highly defamatory fabrication” and suggested it included “invented” quotes. The Sunday Times reported that Mr Cummings became convinced that Britain would be better able to resist a lethal second wave of the disease next winter if more than 60% of the population was infected.
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