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Grieving families of Covid victims yesterday called on Boris Johnson to apologise as he ducked questions over Downing Street’s ‘lockdown-busting’ party.
They told how they were kept apart from loved ones for months by virus curbs and even forced to say goodbye to the dying over Zoom while No10 held a ‘bring your own booze’ bash.
Relatives said they had been treated with contempt and called on the Prime Minister to come clean over his involvement in the Downing Street garden party.
Anger: Hannah Brady lost father and gran
My mum died alone aged 98: Marjorie Bourke, 98, died alone just five days before the drinks party. Valerie French, pictured, could only see her mother for ten minutes in hospital and no family was allowed to be with Mrs Bourke as she died from pneumonia and heart failure. Mrs French, 68 a teacher from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said Boris Johnson was ‘a coward’, adding: ‘My family... did the right thing.’
Teacher Hannah Brady, 25, whose father Shaun’s death certificate was signed on the day of the event – May 20, 2020 – said Mr Johnson should admit if he attended or knew about it. She insisted: ‘If it’s proven he attended that party or he knew about it then he should resign.
‘It’s unspinnable. The person who’s in charge of keeping this country safe is just chipping away at his own moral
