The prime minister denied a claim by the Daily Mail that in late 2020 he said he would rather see 'bodies piling up' than impose a third lockdown. Responding to a reporter's question on the matter during a visit in Wales, Boris Johnson added that 'the important thing I think people want us to get on and do, as a government, is to make sure that the lockdowns work'

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