Former PM denied he made major mistakes during pandemic on first day of his evidence to the inquiry
Johnson has walked back claims that Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were present to “properly discuss” the “eat out to help out scheme” before it went live, conceding that no scientists attended meetings about the scheme.
Johnson said he had “frankly assumed” they were involved in talks about the scheme with the Treasury and that was “surpirsed it was smuggled past them.”
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