Shadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political figuresSenior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet have been meeting with top Whitehall mandarins and former...
Read MoreChief medical officer for England and chief UK medical adviser says civil servants did good job but PM took ‘unique’ decisionsQ: Was there no aspect on the pandemic on which you did not advise?Whitty says he would...
Read MoreFormer chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance revealed there was ‘complete lack of leadership’ at times in crisis. This live blog is closedPatrick Vallance contradicts Rishi Sunak’s evidence to Covid...
Read MoreChief scientific adviser in pandemic says lockdown should have come sooner and that Johnson is not great at scienceUK politics live – latest updatesSir Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser...
Read MorePM would almost certainly have known concerns over ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, says former chief scientific adviserExplainer: How Vallance’s diaries exposed chaos inside No 10UK politics live – latest...
Read MoreFormer chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance revealed there was ‘complete lack of leadership’ at times in crisisVallance says that some of what he was doing during Covid would have been done by anyone else in the...
Read MoreFormer chief scientific adviser says he was uncomfortable with claim UK government was ‘following the science’Vallance says that some of what he was doing during Covid would have been done by anyone else in the post...
Read MoreSpeculations ahead of autumn statement on Wednesday about potential personal tax cuts Good morning. After one of the most intense weeks for political news since Rishi Sunak became PM (Suella Braverman being sacked, David Cameron...
Read MoreThe eat out to help out scheme will face scrutiny when Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty and Angela McLean appear this weekExplosive evidence about the tensions and disagreements between the then prime minister Boris Johnson, his...
Read MoreLord Bethell says Boris Johnson did ‘everything he could’ to avoid focusing on pandemic in early days of crisisBrexit was prioritised over tackling Covid-19 in the early days of the outbreak, a former health minister...
Read MoreBoris Johnson’s former principal private secretary apologises unreservedly for organising event in May 2020Keith shows a WhatsApp message from Simon Case, the cabinet secretary. It is date 20 December 2021 and in it Case...
Read MoreChief scientific adviser in 2020 found the ex-PM ‘completely inconsistent’ in his evidence to the Covid inquiryBoris Johnson’s decision-making during the coronavirus pandemic was described as...
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