Boris Johnson Believed Old People Should 'Accept Their Fate' And Catch Covid

Boris Johnson's chaotic Number 10 operation is coming under the microscope in the Covid Inquiry.Boris Johnson wanted old people to “accept their fate” and catch Covid so that the young could get on with their lives, it has been revealed.The former prime minister also suggested that he agreed with Tory MPs who believed the virus was “nature’s way of dealing with old people”.The shocking revelations were contained in former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance’s diaries, which have been made public by the Covid Inquiry.It also emerged yesterday that a former aide to Johnson believed the former PM had asked “why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon” in the early days of the pandemic.Writing in his diary on August 28 2020, Vallance said: ”[Johnson] is obsessed with old people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going. Quite a bonkers set of exchanges.”In a further entry on December 12 that year, said: ”[Johnson] says