A chilling note of a meeting between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak before the UK's first lockdown questioned whether to destroy the economy for people who would "die anyway".
Former Downing Street aide Imran Shafi scribbled the note during a meeting between the then-PM and Chancellor in March 2020. He wrote in his diary: "Large numbers of people who will die - why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon."
Asked who said the words, Mr Shafi told the Inquiry: "I can't say for sure, I think it was the former Prime Minister."
In an explosive day at the inquiry, damning WhatsApp messages were shared showing officials thought Mr Johnson made dealing with the pandemic "impossible" and said he was Trump-level "mad and dangerous".
Screenshots shown to the Covid Inquiry reveal Cabinet Secretary Simon Case also believed the PM was turning the UK into a "tragic joke". The messages were part of a blistering series of WhatsApps lifting the lid on the chaos in the early days of the pandemic.
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In another Mr Case, the UK's most senior civil servant, said a series of blunders meant the Government "doesn't have the credibility needed to be imposing stuff".
It came as a top civil servant dubbed "Party Marty" was unable to explain why he'd enabled "disappearing" WhatsApps in a group which included the PM. Martin Reynolds, who was Boris Johnson's principal private secretary, claimed he "can't recall" why he did it as he was grilled over messages sent between top officials and the then-PM.
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