Latest updates: health secretary says he is ‘sorry for the loss people have suffered’ but does not say what government could learn

Q: What do politicians mean when they say they are following the science? And where does science end and politics begin?

Whitty says in an ideal world scientists would “set out the truth”, and polticians would turn that into policy.

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