Experts were used as ‘human shields’ for the Government, whose officials ‘cherry-picked’ science to justify Covid-19 decision-making, Sir Patrick Vallance’s pandemic diaries claimed.
The Chief Scientific Adviser, who regularly addressed the nation alongside ministers during Covid press conferences, wrote that Downing Street sought to justify its actions by claiming they were ‘following the science’.
And he accused an unnamed official of ‘completely rewriting’ scientific advice on social distancing, the Covid-19 inquiry in London heard today.
Sir Patrick’s previously undisclosed contemporaneous