Johnson blocks top scientists from talking about Cummings
by Rowena Mason and Peter Walker from Science | The Guardian on (#541NJ)
PM gags Vallance and Whitty when they are asked if Cummings breached lockdown
Boris Johnson has blocked his two most senior scientific advisers from answering questions on whether his senior aide, Dominic Cummings, broke the lockdown.
At No 10's daily press conference, the prime minister twice prevented questions from journalists who wanted to know whether Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, believed Cummings had stuck to the rules.
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