Johnson backtracks on meeting group for Covid-19 bereaved
PM appeared to agree on Sky News to meet justice campaigners but now says it is ‘regrettably not possible’
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Boris Johnson has declined to meet members of a campaign group representing families bereaved by coronavirus, despite appearing to promise to do so on live TV last week.
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, which says it represents 1,600 bereaved families, is campaigning for a rapid public inquiry into the government’s response to the pandemic and is taking legal action to force one, sending pre-action letters to the government.
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