Comment by Dame Angela McLean in message during meeting was apparently in reference to ‘eat out to help out’ scheme
“Dr Death the chancellor” during a meeting attended by both in the Covid crisis, the official inquiry into the pandemic has been told.
On 20 September, Vallance asked Edmunds to join a meeting at which Boris Johnson and Sunak were to hear views from scientists – “mainly from the ‘let it rip’ brigade”, Vallance told Edmunds in the email. Asked who this referred to, Edmunds told the inquiry: “I’m pretty sure it’s the next witness.” Due to give evidence after him was Carl Heneghan, a professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University who was a critic of several lockdown-related measures.
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