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Patrick Vallance

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer hosts his first cabinet meeting

    Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

    Covid adviser Patrick Vallance and businessman James Timpson among appointments from outside Westminster

May 2024

  • Patrick Vallance

    Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance

    Former UK chief scientific adviser warns ‘we are not ready yet’ and urges next government to prepare

March 2024

  • Sir Patrick Vallance is one of the Labour dinner attendees.

    Starmer’s team coached for government over dinners with top Whitehall figures

    Shadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political figures

December 2023

  • Rishi Sunak at the door of No 10

    Rishi Sunak’s ‘eat out to help out’ scheme to come under scrutiny at Covid inquiry

    PM will be questioned on Monday as he faces pressure from Tory backbenchers over Rwanda legislation
  • Boris Johnson

    Boris Johnson’s legacy will be shaped by Covid inquiry appearance

    Discredited ex-PM faces a demolition job in one of the few policy areas to which he and his allies still cling
  • Matt Hancock

    Boris Johnson wanted ‘massive fines’ for lockdown breaches, Covid inquiry hears

    PM favoured ‘a lot more punishments’, Patrick Vallance wrote in diary in September 2020, three months after his own law breaking

24 November 2023

  • From left: Chris Whitty, Boris Johnson and Patrick Vallance at a press conference in March 2020.

    The Guardian view on the Covid inquiry: expert witnesses expose a mass of political failure

  • Chris Whitty

    Herd immunity and a ‘bamboozled’ PM: what we learned at the UK Covid inquiry this week

21 November 2023

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Today we learned Laura Trott is the unthinking person’s Helen Whately

    John Crace
  • Jeremy Hunt.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    National living wage to rise to £11.44 an hour from April and extended to 21-year-olds – as it happened

  • Patrick Vallance leaves following his appearance at the Covid inquiry

    I regret saying ‘herd immunity’, Vallance tells UK Covid inquiry

  • Zoe Williams

    What does the Covid inquiry really tell us? If another pandemic arrived tomorrow, nothing would be better

    Zoe Williams

20 November 2023

  • This grab from the UK COVID-19 Inquiry Live Stream shows former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance giving evidence at Dorland House in London, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic, according to his then chief scientific advisor. In keenly awaited testimony Monday to the country’s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Vallance said he and others faced repeated problems getting Johnson to understand the science. (UK COVID-19 Inquiry via AP)

    Patrick Vallance contradicts Rishi Sunak’s evidence to Covid inquiry

  • Sir Patrick Vallance

    The Guardian view on the Covid inquiry: scientists and the government under the microscope

  • The UK government’s chief scientific adviser during the pandemic reveals that the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, found it a struggle to understand some graphs

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    Boris Johnson 'bamboozled' by science, Covid inquiry hears – video

  • Sir Patrick Vallance gives evidence.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson ‘bamboozled’ by science and Matt Hancock had habit of saying things that were untrue, UK Covid inquiry hears – as it happened

  • The politics sketch
    If Rish! makes a speech and no one is there to hear it, has he made a speech?

    John Crace

  • What we learned from Patrick Vallance at the Covid inquiry

  • How Patrick Vallance’s explosive diaries exposed Covid chaos inside No 10

19 November 2023

  • Chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance, the then prime minister Boris Johnson and chief medical officer Chris Whitty

    Scientists set to expose chaos and disagreement in UK government at Covid inquiry

    The Eat out to help out scheme will face scrutiny when Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty and Angela McLean appear this week
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