Throughout the Covid meetings, Sir Patrick Vallance was scribbling almost as much as Michael Gove, leading Boris Johnson to assume that he was keeping a diary to be published afterwards. This made sense to Johnson who started to tell friends that Vallance knew ‘more about arse-covering than face-covering’ (Vallance had refused throughout the crisis to say whether the policy of police-enforced mask mandates had any basis in science).

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Patrick Vallance and the politicisation of Covid science

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21.11.2023

Throughout the Covid meetings, Sir Patrick Vallance was scribbling almost as much as Michael Gove, leading........

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