The Latest Breaking News from Patrick Vallance

The UK has the research base, the startups, the venture capitalists, but its presence in the global market is pitiful. The chancellor must step in

Keir Starmer made some eye-catching new appointments, including a human rights barrister and a rehabilitation campaigner

Former UK chief scientific adviser warns ‘we are not ready yet’ and urges next government to prepare

Speaking at Hay Festival, the scientist who helped lead UK through Covid called for pandemics to be planned for in the same way as wars

Speaking at this year’s Hay Festival, the former government scientific advisor also said it was ‘about time’ for a general election

Shadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political figures

People keep diaries for all sorts of reasons – to record events, work through difficult situations, or manage stress and trauma. The ongoing COVID inquiry shows diaries also have important political and historic significance. The UK’s former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance’s diaries have been a key source of evidence,…

Lead counsel’s quizzing of leading politicians, officials and scientists has brought him to national attention

The prime minister used an eight-hour evidence session to brush off accusations that he launched the controversial hospitality-boosting scheme without proper scientific advice