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Leading article

Advisers advise – but it must be ministers who decide

23 May 2020

9:00 AM

23 May 2020

9:00 AM

From the outset of the Covid-19 crisis, the government was determined that scientists would play a central and highly visible role. The Prime Minister set the tone in his first daily press briefing, when he addressed the nation flanked by the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser. The message was clear: this was a government that cherished, not rejected, experts.

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