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...Patrick Pagani, deputy secretary general of Copa-Cogeca, the pan-European farmers’ lobby group, says the commission under Von der Leyen had adopted a “top down” and “very punitive” approach to agriculture...
...In diary entries from May 2020 seen by the inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser when the pandemic began, said Johnson was “bamboozled” and “confused” by scientific modelling, and that...
...His comments came as the inquiry was shown diary entries from 2020 in which Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, wrote that Sedwill had called Johnson’s administration...
...The problem is that their demands are far from simple, writes Alice Hancock....
...A spokesperson for Hancock said: “Mr Hancock has supported the inquiry throughout and will respond to all questions when he gives his evidence.”...
...It was shown the diaries of Patrick Vallance, who was chief scientific adviser during the pandemic....
...Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser when Covid struck, said Johnson was “bamboozled” and “confused” by the scientific modelling presented to him....
...The inquiry also heard Lord Sedwill believed Johnson should have removed Matt Hancock as health secretary during the pandemic to “save lives and protect the NHS”....
...Johnson’s concession that he was “bewildered” by data on March 12 that showed the NHS would be under enormous strain irrespective of a lockdown, echoed comments from Sir Patrick Vallance, former chief scientific...
...Patrick Marrinan, managing director of the noodle chain Pho, which had seen a nine-fold increase in employees under 20 since 2019, said that young staff preferred part-time work, which meant double the amount...
...Asked if she was suggesting Hancock regularly said things that were not true, MacNamara said “yes”....
...Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, told the inquiry he would be “very surprised” if any minister had not understood the “risk” of the scheme increasing transmission rates...
...Smart read Kenza Bryan and Alice Hancock survey landmark court rulings recognising that governments have legally binding climate obligations....
...“Still no fucking serious testing in care homes his uselessness is still killing God knows how many,” Cummings wrote of Hancock....
...The inquiry has also seen private messages that showed Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, had also been highly critical of the scheme....
...But Thomas said what was striking was “how ministers were, in these messages at least, actually pretty deferential to [chief medical officer] Chris Whitty and [chief scientific adviser] Patrick Vallance....
...Additional reporting by Alice Hancock in Brussels...
...Letter in response to this article: Imperial China’s grand historian has final word / From Patrick M Dransfield, Abu Dhabi, UAE...
...We know that Matt Hancock himself warned against it as it was going on. He said it was creating some real problems....
...He also commissioned a report by chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance on how to change regulation to “better support safe and fast introduction of new emerging technologies”....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Quote of the day “Fossil fuels becoming fashionable again.”...
A fiery dispute has erupted between the hotel’s Qatari owners and former developer Paddy McKillen
...The establishment’s operator Maybourne Hotels, which is ultimately owned by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, has pushed property developer Patrick McKillen...
...The group’s new chief executive, Patrick Coveney, who joined the company this month from Greencore, said SSP had not done “anything out of the norm” in terms of raising prices to cope with inflation, adding...
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