Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist

Exclusive: Boris Johnson's chumocracy' is using Covid crisis to sell off health service by stealth, says Sir David King

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Boris Johnson's government has been accused of corruption, privatising the NHS by stealth, operating a chumocracy" and mishandling the pandemic and climate crisis, by Sir David King, a former government chief scientist.

I am extremely worried about the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, about the processes by which public money has been distributed to private sector companies without due process," he told the Guardian in an interview. It really smells of corruption."