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Boris Johnson at the Queen: The weekly audiences were finally held digitally during the corona pandemic
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Boris Johnson's former advisor Dominic Cummings has been shooting at his former boss for months.
Now he is again making allegations against the British Prime Minister.
In an in-depth interview that the BBC plans to broadcast in full on Tuesday evening, Cummings said that at the beginning of the pandemic, Johnson wanted to continue to meet the Queen in person despite her old age.
Cummings claimed that he himself had to convince his boss that he could kill the now 95-year-old monarch if he infected her with the virus.
Queen Elizabeth II and Johnson eventually held their weekly audiences virtually.
Since leaving Downing Street, ex-government advisor Cummings, who for years belonged to Boris Johnson's closest circle, has repeatedly raised accusations against him. Among other things, he accuses him of massive wrong decisions in the pandemic and with it the devastating British record of corona deaths, which are now on the death certificate for more than 152,000 Covid-19 deaths. Most recently, he brought Johnson into distress by publishing excerpts from WhatsApp chats.
In the interview, among other things, a message comes from Johnson, in which he is said to have sarcastically written "Get Covid and Live Longer" (original: "Get Covid and Live Longer") last October.
The background is said to have been the average age of the patients who were dying of Covid-19 at the time.
Johnson is said to have been of the opinion that this is more than 80 years above the average life expectancy and therefore there is no reason for another lockdown.
Cummings' allegations are seen by some as a campaign of revenge for leaving his post after a bitter power struggle on Downing Street.
However, many of his claims coincide with statements by other participants or observers.
asc / dpa
