Confirmed by Sir Patrick Vallance at the Covid Inquiry today - Rishi Sunak's grossly irresponsible Eat Out To Help Out scheme drove a second wave of Covid. He is to blame for the damage caused. He needs to be held accountable, Ms Lucas wrote on X.
Sir Patrick Vallance said he was aware the pandemic and the measures required to tackle it would have an unequal impact. He says he stands by his witness statement which says that the virus fed off inequality and drove inequality. Pressed on whether this knowledge formed part of the advice given at senior decision-making levels, Vallance can't recall exactly how early he drew attention to this. But, he says he thinks it was pretty early on - and that Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, did the same.
Boris Johnson was bamboozled by the science during the pandemic and had to have details explained to him repeatedly, the Covid inquiry has heard. Sir Patrick Vallance's bombshell diary entries revealed in excruciating detail how the former prime minister struggled to understand graphs and just could not get some scientific concepts. The former chief scientific adviser one of the government's most senior advisers during the pandemic told the inquiry about how he kept daily notes as a brain dump to help him decompress and never intended them to see the light of day.
Rishi Sunak was not terribly pleased with the prospect of imposing a lockdown in London during the early stages of the pandemic, Sir Patrick Vallance has told the Covid-19 Inquir
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