Whilst Boris Johnson is alleged to have partied at Downing Street, care home deaths soared in West Dunbartonshire
dailyrecord.co.ukAs Boris Johnson is claimed to have attended a Downing Street garden party in May 2020, the number of Covid-19 deaths in West Dunbartonshire moved towards 100.On May 19 2020, the day before the alleged party, the Lennox told how an unspecified number of deaths had been recorded at Balquhidder House Care Home in Alexandria, with the total number of deaths recorded from Covid-19 locally sitting at 99.We also reported on a spike in domestic violence over lockdown, the increasing link between social deprivation and Covid-19 deaths and how kind-hearted locals were leaving supportive messages on Dumbarton Bridge to help those struggling with lockdown measures.Yesterday furious West Dunbartonshire MP Martin Docherty-Hughes called on Boris Johnson to resign, as he highlighted the heartbreaking death toll in the area.Speaking to Parliament he said: "As of yesterday, across Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven, 300 men and women—my constituents—have died of covid-19."Most were intubated, the vast majority were alone, and many were without access to the burial traditions of our ancestors."I ask the Paymaster General whether they agree that if a Tory party in Downing Street took place during a global public health emergency, and if the Prime Minister participated and/or sanctioned it in any shape or form, and if senior members of the British civil service in Whitehall did the same, or were even invited and did nothing to advise against it, that is a fatal blow not only to the Prime Minister’s premiership but to the independence and impartiality of the civil service in Whitehall?"And talking afterwards, Mr Docherty-Hughes added: "My constituents have sacrificed so much during this pandemic.
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