"It’s hardly unfounded, Andy...and you are resorting to semantics. We do have the HIGHEST Covid related death rate in Europe...that is a fact."

Absolutely false, non factual, lie, call it what you will. Go here https://www.statista.com/statistics/...n-inhabitants/ and click on far right column to sort by deaths per million of population.

We may have the highest NUMBER of deaths, but we do not have the highest death RATE which infers it is a "per..." figure.

Perhaps we do have the highest death rates of British people in Europe, by country, if you prefer to construct a statistic to fit your model?