Boris Johnson ‘bamboozled’ by science and Matt Hancock had habit of saying things that were untrue, UK Covid inquiry hears – as it happened

Former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance revealed there was complete lack of leadership' at times in crisis. This live blog is closed

• Patrick Vallance contradicts Rishi Sunak's evidence to Covid inquiry

Vallance says that some of what he was doing during Covid would have been done by anyone else in the post of government chief scientific adviser (GCSA).

But he says because of his medical training, and his knowledge of vaccines (he had worked for GlaxoSmithKline before taking the GCSA job), he was probably more involved than another GCSA might have been.