Home secretary Priti Patel has denied claims made by Dominic Cummings that the government’s original plan to deal with coronavirus was to let the virus rip through the population to spread herd immunity.
When asked by Andrew Marr, on his eponymous BBC show, if the government would now admit to these accusations, Ms Patel said simply: “Absolutely not.”
While telling Mr Marr she would not comment on what Mr Cummings has, or might, say, she commented that Boris Johnson had “showed great leadership at a hard time” and said the government’s only strategy has been to “put protecting the public at the forefront of our decisions”.
It comes as France’s foreign minister announced the country might follow in Germany’s footsteps and put stricter measures on British travellers. Jean-Yves Le Drian suggested Britain could be put in a health category of its own, somewhere in between the strictest measures France is currently imposing on visitors from India and 15 other countries, and more relaxed requirements being readied for visitors from the EU and some other countries.
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