Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 26 April 2021

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1. PM said let ‘bodies pile high’

Boris Johnson told No. 10 officials that he would rather see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than order a third lockdown, according to unnamed sources. The Daily Mail reports that the remark came as the prime minister reluctantly imposed the second shutdown on 31 October. Downing Street has strongly denied that the prime minister made the comment, insisting it was “just another lie”. The development comes amid a public war of words between Johnson and his former chief of staff Dominic Cummings.

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