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Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson gives evidence at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry
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11:21Now PlayingFormer UK prime minister Boris Johnson has been giving evidence at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry in London.
He said he had a personal "horror" of closing schools as he believed it to be "a nightmare thing to do".
"I thought it would do a lot of damage to the life chances of people who would find it most difficult to bounce back."
He said "children were paying a huge, huge price to protect the rest of society".
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