Citing a diary entry by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, Dermot Keating, a counsel to the official Covid inquiry, said Johnson referred to the Treasury under Sunak as the ‘pro-death squad’, as the then chancellor sought to build support for a loosening of Covid restrictions, the inquiry heard. Keating asked Stuart Glassborow, who was Johnson’s deputy principal private secretary, about what Vallance wrote. Glassborow said: ‘I wouldn’t dispute what he’s recorded, but I don’t recall the phrase at all’.
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