Patrick Vallance

Stories

• Made science minister for Keir Starmer government.
• Former Government chief scientific adviser.
• Joined the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
• Climate change will kill more people than COVID-19.
• We should sacrifice meat and flights for sake of climate.
• Has £600,000 shareholding in firm contracted to develop vaccines.
• Said it was a mistake to present the public with worst case scenario projections to justify lockdowns.
• Argued to the COVID-19 inquiry that his scientific opinion was not given enough weight in comparison to the economy.
• Described people who wanted to end lockdowns sooner as "Pro death squad".
• Told the COVID-19 inquiry that the UK should have gone into lockdown earlier.
• Calls for net zero to have immediacy of search for Covid vaccine.
• Head of the government Science and Engineering.
• President of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline between 2012 and 2017.
• On the board of the UK Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research from 2009 to 2016.
• Honorary degrees from Imperial College London, University of Glasgow and York University.
• Wrote in his diary that Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has completely rewritten the science advice.
• Described the Prime Ministers desire to remove lockdowns as "very worrying".
• Argued during the COVID-19 inquiry that the lockdowns should have been "broader, harder and earlier".
• Argued in an article in The Times that COVID-19 models did not only look at worst possible outcomes, even though he argued that this was what was presented to the public.
• Described the COVID-19 MRNA vaccines as "safe and effective".