Cummings claims, “herd immunity was initial UK policy”

PM’s former aide, Dominic Cummings has reiterated that “herd immunity was initial UK policy”. However, Priti Patel has denied this claim. In a lengthy Twitter thread, Cummings had dismissed this as “bullshit”. Priti Patel told BBC, “Not at all, no. Absolutely not. Colleagues who were in top-level meetings on Covid at the start of the pandemic “will absolutely recognise that from the discussions that we had. In a new series of tweets, Cummings went on to write, “Media generally abysmal on Covid but even I’ve been surprised by 1 thing: how many hacks have parroted Hancock’s line that ‘herd immunity wasn’t the plan’ when ‘herd immunity by Sep’ was *literally the official plan in all docs/graphs/meetings* until it was ditched.” Asked about the tweets, Patel said: “I can’t speak for Mr Cummings and one individual.”