Chris Whitty defends coronavirus lockdown lag in bad-tempered interview

The Government’s scientific advisers today butted heads about whether the UK was too slow to enforce lockdown. In an uncharacteristically bad-tempered interview, England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty claimed there were ‘operational difficulties’ that made it difficult to shut the country down in a week.   During a virtual grilling with MPs, Professor Whitty denied there … Read more