Sunak’s Covid Evidence Questioned by Ex-Scientific Adviser (1)

The UK’s chief scientific adviser in the pandemic said he was not aware of Rishi Sunak’s “Eat Out to Help Out” plan to encourage Britons back into restaurants before it was rolled out, testimony that appears to contradict the prime minister’s own written evidence to the official Covid-19 inquiry.

“Eat Out to Help Out — we didn’t know about until it was announced,” Patrick Vallance, who stepped down in April, told the inquiry on Monday. “It’s very difficult to see how that wouldn’t have had an effect on transmission and that would have been the advice that was ...