It was an embarrassing mis-step and I generally find Van Tam, the least convincing of the government scientists.
It's notable how loyal all the government scientists have been to the politicians, to the point of sacrificing some scientific credibility in order to back up their political...
It is, and I admit I had Hancock down as an alright (for a tory mp) bloke up until he said that. My mistake.
Starmer should, and no doubt will, completely crucify Johnson for this on Wednesday.
So, you mean they didn't bunk off from meetings on subjects they weren't interested in and didn't reject the chance to get items they needed because of ideological objections?