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Rachel Reeves to pledge to ‘fight’ for growth in economic speech

The Chancellor will claim the so-called ‘Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor’ has ‘the potential to be Europe’s Silicon Valley’.

Evening Standard

I would not have been a minister under Tories, says Labour’s Patrick Vallance

Exclusive: Former chief scientific adviser makes remark as DSIT announces reopening of recruitment for key role

The Guardian - UK

Britain could be a sci-tech superpower – if the Treasury stopped holding it back

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

The Guardian - UK

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Familiar faces but not all from politics: meet the surprise Labour ministers

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

The Guardian - UK

All the Labour cabinet members who aren’t MPs from Patrick Vallance to James Timpson

The cabinet includes senior ministers from the Tony Blair era, and those given peerages to sit in the House of Lords

The Independent UK

Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

Covid adviser Patrick Vallance and businessman James Timpson among appointments from outside Westminster

The Guardian - UK

Sir Patrick Vallance: Local authorities should pool pension funds to boost startup investment

The UK’s former chief scientific adviser has called on local authorities to pool their pension funds in order to more effectively deploy investment into higher-risk, fast-growth tech startups.

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Patrick Vallance becomes the latest public servant who worked with the Tory government to back Labour

Britain’s former chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance backed Labour’s Great British Energy plan today

The Independent UK

Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance

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

The Guardian - UK

Britain not ready for ‘inevitable’ next pandemic, warns ex-chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

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

The Independent UK

Patrick Vallance recalls Boris Johnson’s G7 Zoom gaffe: ‘the other leaders found it amusing’

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

The Independent UK

Starmer’s team coached for government over dinners with top Whitehall figures

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

The Guardian - UK

What COVID diaries have in common with Samuel Pepys' 17th-century plague diaries

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,…

The Conversation

Hugo Keith KC: dogged fact-finder at heart of Covid inquiry

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

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Rishi Sunak defends Eat Out to Help Out scheme under intense pressure at Covid inquiry

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

Evening Standard

Eat Out to Help Out protected workers from ‘devastating’ job losses, Sunak tells Covid inquiry

The Prime Minister said he still believed the 2020 discount hospitality scheme was the ‘right thing to do’

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak says he did not need to consult scientists on ‘eat out to help out’

PM defends his record as chancellor at Covid inquiry, but repeatedly says he cannot remember meetings and other details

International Business Times

UK Covid-19 Inquiry To Grill PM Sunak Over Eat Out Scheme

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces questions Monday over whether his "Eat Out to Help Out" scheme to help the struggling hospitality sector during the pandemic spurred the spread of Covid-19.

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Rishi Sunak to be quizzed on Covid Eat Out scheme at Covid inquiry before facing critical Rwanda vote

A crucial week for the Prime Minister starts with a grilling on his time as chancellor during the pandemic

The National (Scotland)

Covid inquiry to question Rishi Sunak on Eat Out scheme and lockdowns

Rishi Sunak will face allegations his Eat Out to Help Out scheme fuelled the spread of coronavirus when he appears at the Covid inquiry on Monday.

The Guardian - UK

‘The optics are terrible’: how Rishi Sunak’s 2020 ‘eat out to help out’ scheme backfired

The then chancellor’s plan proved to be of no economic benefit and was decried by scientists – but it clearly set out the political aims of ‘Dishy Rishi’

The Guardian - UK

Eating out and Partygate: Covid inquiry questions Sunak should prepare for

Five things the PM could be asked about next week when giving evidence about his role as chancellor during the crisis

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson defends 'let Covid rip' comments as he hits back over partygate

BORIS Johnson has defended comments he made about letting Covid “rip” even if it meant elderly people dying at the official inquiry into the…

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s second day at the Covid inquiry: key points

The former PM addressed Partygate, ‘letting it rip’ and ‘eat out to help out’ in his second day of evidence

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson claims Partygate coverage is ‘million miles’ from truth in extraordinary rewriting of history

The former PM hit out at the ‘dramatic representations’ of what went on in No 10 – as he tied himself in knots and backtracked on his own witness statement

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