COVID was “nature’s way of dealing with old people”, Boris Johnson allegedly suggested.
Top doc Patrick Vallance also wrote in his diary that the then-PM was “obsessed with older people accepting their fate” to let everyone else get on with their lives.
WhatsApps further show Mr Johnson saying he “no longer buys all this NHS overwhelmed stuff” in the lead-up to the second lockdown.
And looking at the age of people killed with the virus he said: “That is above life expectancy.
"So get Covid and live longer.”
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It comes as Dominic Cummings branded Cabinet Ministers “useless f***pigs” and said Whitehall was “terrifyingly s***” in extraordinary texts during Covid.
Shock WhatsApps also show the former No10 chief privately venting about his then boss Boris Johnson - saying he was “exhausted” with him.
One exchange shows him slagging off the PM’s handling of the pandemic to then communications director Lee Cain.
He said “I’ve literally said the same thing ten f***ing times and he still won’t absorb it.
"I’m exhausted just talking to him and stopping the trolley”.
