LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Britain's Labour Party
opposition leader Keir Starmer said Prime Minister Boris
Johnson must explain a newspaper report that he said he would
rather see bodies piled "high in their thousands" than order a
coronavirus third lockdown.
"I was astonished to see those words," Starmer said in a
pooled interview.
"It's for the prime minister now to make a public statement
about that. If he did say those things, he's got to explain it."
The government has denied Johnson ever made the comments.
(Reporting by Andy Bruce; editing by William James)