People bereaved by Covid have described watching Boris Johnson’s evidence to MPs about Downing Street lockdown events as “torture” and accused him of “pulling his usual tricks of deflection, self pity and blame”.
Fighting for his political future, Johnson strongly denied misleading parliament in a marathon session in front of the Commons privileges committee. Deborah Doyle, 55, whose mother, Sylvia Griffiths, died from Covid in a care home in Sunderland, said his evidence that Downing Street gatherings during tough social distancing rules were “essential for work purposes” was painful.
