Sir Patrick Vallance - you know the name - he’s the other qualified doctor, along with Professor Chris Whitty, who stands at the podium with Boris Johnson and tells us all the good news.
The Chief Scientific Adviser in the UK is a man of many interests. Having worked for many years At University College London and then in the private sector in GlaxoSmithKline, his listing in Who’s Who gives his hobbies as “mushrooming, gardening and playing tennis badly”.
There’s actually something comforting in the fact that Sir Patrick is a fully fledged mycophile.
