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UK politics live: Cummings says health department was ‘total disaster’ and had to be sidelined for vaccine procurement

Former chief adviser to PM tells MPs Department of Health in spring of 2020 was a ‘smoking ruin’ after PPE procurement problems

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Cummings says the Ministry of Defence has a £10bn black hole in its budget because of “disastrous” decisions taken in defence reviews when George Osborne and David Cameron were in power.

Now the MoD is using “honest” figures, he says.

Graham Stringer (Lab) says 90% of scientists voted to remain in the EU. That was partly because the EU funded research.

Q: I felt cooperation became more important than the science in those projects. Do you agree?

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