Covid: Not my job to sugarcoat advice, Sir Patrick Vallance says
The chief scientific adviser says he does not just tell the government what it wants to hear. …
He said he and fellow scientists were labelled as “gloom-mongers” by some parts of the media, and added: “Maybe we were, but we were trying to just tell people as we saw it, and as the experts were helping us understand it, what the situation was, and therefore what the options might be.”