Today's Hallett Inquiry

Understanding Risk - who's job, is it then?

In his evidence to the COVID-19 inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance said that Boris Johnson was “bamboozled” by the graphs and data presented to him by scientists during the pandemic.

Vallance’s diaries were shown to the Inquiry today. One entry from 4 May 2020 said: “Late afternoon meeting with the PM on schools. My God, this is complicated. Models will not p…