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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
John Siddle & Dan Hall & Jack Clover

Family of victims of Tory Covid care home mistake could be set for £200m

Boris Johnson’s government could be forced to pay grieving families £200million over Covid deaths in care homes in Britain’s biggest ever class action lawsuit.

A court ruled this week that the Tories’ reckless policy of clearing 25,000 hospital patients off wards and into homes without first testing them for the virus had been unlawful.

Judges said the Government had failed to consider the risks from asymptomatic transmission.

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