Sir Chris Whitty has hit back at the Tories and insisted the best way to protect against future pandemics is to invest in the NHS.
England’s Chief Medical Officer appeared at the Covid Inquiry and rejected evidence from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt the previous day which blamed a focus on planning for a flu pandemic, rather than a coronavirus.
When Covid-19 struck the NHS had been through a decade-long funding squeeze while council public health budgets had been decimated by austerity.
