Boris Johnson has rejected claims by his former chief aide Dominic Cummings that tens of thousands of people died of Covid-19 unnecessarily because of government mistakes. 'Some of the commentary I've heard doesn't bear any relation to reality,' the prime minister said on a visit to a Colchester hospital. 'We followed to the best we could the data and the guidance we had.'
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