Priti Patel furiously denied the Government pursued a strategy of “herd immunity” in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It comes after Boris Johnson ’s former aide Dominic Cummings claimed No10 originally intended to let the disease spread through the community.
Mr Cummings tweeted that “herd immunity by September” was “'literally the official plan in all documents/graphs/meetings' until it was ditched”.
In a series of tweets, Mr Cummings dismissed Government denials at the time as “b******t”, and said that No 10 had chosen to lie - a move he described as "very foolish" and demonstrating "appalling ethics".