Boris Johnson’s apparent U turn on meeting the families of victims of Covid has been described as a new low.
Last week the Prime Minister appeared to suggest that he would meet the families in an interview on Sky News but according to the Guardian this morning,the prime minister has now declined to meet the group’s representatives, saying it was “regrettably not possible”.
In the letter , signed by the prime minister, Johnson said he was “acutely conscious that a letter will be of little comfort against the grief and heartbreak that families have suffered”
Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said:
“These revelations that bereaved families had to write to Boris Johnson five times asking to meet him – for him to privately go back on his public word and refuse are astounding, and upsetting for so many whose families and lives have been impacted by COVID in this way.
“41,504 people have tragically lost their lives to this virus. The very least the Prime Minister could do is respond truthfully to their families, and have the heart to meet some of them and their representatives.”
“The Prime Minister has been going back on his word all summer – but to not even meet with grieving families hits a new low.”
