The chair of the House of Commons’ science committee has been accused of misrepresenting the findings of a scientific report on Covid by cherry-picking out lines like it was “a West End review”.
In a May 2020 letter to then prime minister Boris Johnson, Conservative MP Greg Clark used a line from a paper by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) to call for two-metre social distancing rules to be dropped.
But Clark failed to mention that the following line in the paper, which was on transmission of the virus, argued against stopping social distancing, today’s Covid inquiry hearing heard.
