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Dominic Cummings has taken another huge swipe at Boris Johnson\u2019s government (Picture: Tolga Akmen \/ AFP)Dominic Cummings has accused Matt Hancock of lying about the Government\u2019s original plan to let coronavirus spread through the community in an attempt to build \u2018herd immunity\u2019.
\nBoris Johnson\u2019s former top adviser said the plan when the disease first emerged was to develop resistance in the population in the months leading up to September.
\nIn a series of bombshell tweets he said it was only abandoned in early March after Downing Street was warned it would lead to a \u2018catastrophe\u2019.
\nMr Cummings\u2019 latest intervention comes as he prepares to give evidence on Wednesday to MPs on the Commons health and science committees who are investigating the Government\u2019s response to the pandemic.
\nDowning Street is braced for a potentially highly damaging onslaught following his acrimonious departure from No 10 at the end of last year.
\nIn a foretaste of what to expect, he said that there may have been no need for any lockdowns if the country had had the \u2018the right preparations and competent people in charge\u2019.
\nInstead he said that at the beginning of March last year, the plan had been \u2018herd immunity\u2019 and that claims to the contrary by the Health Secretary were \u2018bulls***\u2019.
\nHe also strongly attacked the media for accepting the Government\u2019s denials.<\/p>\n
Boris Johnson\u2019s government is braced for more damaging accusations by the former top aide (Picture: AFP)\u2018Media generally abysmal on Covid but even I\u2019ve been surprised by one thing: how many hacks have parroted Hancock\u2019s line that \u2018herd immunity wasn\u2019t the plan\u2019 when \u2018herd immunity by September\u2019 was\u2019 literally the official plan in all documents\/graphs\/meetings\u2019 until it was ditched,\u2019 he tweeted.
\n\u2018Yes the media is often incompetent but something deeper is at work: much of SW1 (the Westminster postcode) was happy to believe Hancock\u2019s bullshit that \u2018it\u2019s not the plan\u2019 so they didn\u2019t have to face the shocking truth. Most political hacks believe in \u2018the system\u2019\u2026
\n\u2018In week of March 9, No10 was made aware by various people that the official plan would lead to catastrophe. It was then replaced by Plan B. But how \u2018herd immunity by September\u2019 could have been the plan until that week is a fundamental issue in the whole disaster.\u2019
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At the time, the Government\u2019s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, had said that if they tried to suppress the disease \u2018very, very hard\u2019 it would simply bounce back when restrictions were released.
\nInstead he suggested the aim was to \u2018build up some kind of herd immunity\u2019 so more people were resistant to the disease and transmission was reduced.
\nIn his tweets, Mr Cummings said there had been \u2018so much lock down confusion\u2019.
\n\u2018Obviously they\u2019re \u2018destructive\u2019. But if you have to do it because alternative is \u2018hundreds of thousands choking to death and no NHS for months for everybody else and economy sunk because everybody hiding in terror\u2019 then earlier\/harder is better for health AND economy,\u2019 he said.
\n\u2018If we\u2019d had the right preparations and competent people in charge, we would probably have avoided lockdown 1, \u2018definitely\u2019 no need for lockdowns 2 and 3.
\n\u2018Given the plan was AWOL\/disaster and awful decisions delayed everything, lockdown 1 became necessary.\u2019
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