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Chris Whitty

January 2025

  • Lord Frost pictured in 2021

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened

  • Nigel Farage at a Trump rally in November 2024.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Farage claims chance he could be PM within four years is up to 25% – as it happened

November 2024

  • Patrick Ruane

    Covid denier who posted violent threats against Chris Whitty jailed for five years

    Patrick Ruane had targeted individuals online including chief medical officer

September 2024

  • Chris Whitty in a suit and dark tie emerging from a building

    Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty

  • Chris Whitty arriving at the Covid inquiry in London on Thursday

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Lack of ICU capacity was ‘political choice’, Chris Whitty tells Covid inquiry – as it happened

April 2024

  • Chris Whitty during a Covid news conference

    Chris Whitty urges MPs to ignore lobbying and pass smoking ban bill

    Exclusive: England’s chief medical officer says tobacco industry is the ‘one gainer from the death and disease’ caused by its products

January 2024

  • Heather Hallett

    Key Covid inquiry report creates election date headache for Sunak

    Heather Hallett’s first findings are to be published before the summer and will show how austerity and Brexit hit pandemic planning

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

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

    Editorial: Testimony from the government’s medical and scientific advisers condemns Boris Johnson’s Downing Street and Rishi Sunak’s Treasury
  • Stephen Reicher

    Amid the drama of the Covid inquiry, Chris Whitty quietly pointed to an important truth. Will anyone listen?

    Stephen Reicher
    England’s chief medical officer owned up to experts’ ignorance of psychology. If only others had been so candid in admitting their errors, says Stephen Reicher, a professor of psychology
  • Chris Whitty

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

    The inquiry heard evidence of threats against scientists, and more metaphors from Jonathan Van-Tam

22 November 2023

  • Jeremy Hunt delivering the autumn statement.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Jeremy Hunt cuts national insurance but UK tax burden set to hit high amid plummeting living standards – as it happened

  • Chris Whitty with black rucksack passing police officer and sign that sayss UK Covid-19 Inquiry

    Herd immunity was never UK policy, Chris Whitty tells Covid inquiry

21 November 2023

  • Sir Chris Whitty giving evidence at Covid inquiry

    Whitty implored officials not to use terms like ‘flatten curve’, Covid inquiry told

  • 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

  • Chris Whitty at a press conference in Downing Street in December 2021

    Chris Whitty, England’s voice of calm authority during Covid crisis

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

    PM would almost certainly have known concerns over ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, says former chief scientific adviser
  • Sir Patrick Vallance

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

    Editorial: Expanding on his late-night diary entries, Sir Patrick Vallance gave crucial evidence from a unique perspective
  • 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

    Former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance revealed there was ‘complete lack of leadership’ at times in crisis
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