Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Boris Johnson tried to meet the Queen in person during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic before being told he could be responsible for her death, his former chief adviser claims.
In an explosive BBC interview set to air tonight, Dominic Cummings reveals how the Prime Minister had to be told not go to Buckingham Palace for his weekly audience, the Mirror reports.
The Mirror previously reported how on the day of the scheduled meeting, on March 18, 2020, the danger of the virus was already well-known and there were already 2,626 reported cases across the UK.