Gasps as Boris Johnson snaps at Covid inquiry lawyer over death toll figures

Gasps as Boris Johnson snaps at Covid inquiry lawyer over death toll figuresUK Covid Inquiry

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00:00 If you look at the point I was making, which I stand by,

00:05 is that the UK, the tables I've seen,

00:08 actually comes about halfway down.

00:11 And it's not just this table.

00:13 It's the -- I think there was a Lancet study as well.

00:19 I think the former health secretary

00:21 alludes to it in his evidence.

00:24 -You've raised this in your statement.

00:26 You made a sweeping assertion

00:28 that the UK defied the more gloomy predictions.

00:32 I'm putting to you some cold steel of evidence.

00:36 And that's what I'm trying to do here.

00:38 -But I don't believe that your --

00:39 I think your -- I don't believe that your evidence stacks up.

00:42 -Okay. -And I think that,

00:44 actually, if you look at -- -Could we just pause, please,

00:47 Mr. Weatherby and Mr. Johnson?

00:48 I'm sorry. I know that emotions are running high,

00:51 but I have to ask those in the public gallery

00:55 to keep quiet, whatever their emotions,

00:57 because it's going to disrupt the proceedings

01:00 and it affects the live feed,

01:02 the streaming for other people who are trying to follow.

01:04 I'm really sorry.

01:05 I do understand, but it has to stop.

01:08 All right? -Thank you, m'lady.