Chris Whitty’s takedown of this Tory MP over Covid was as brutal as it was unfailingly polite

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England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has been answering questions from MPs about Omicron today.

Whitty appeared via video link to members of a Commons select committee and one question in particular stood out.

It came from the Conservative MP for Watford, Dean Russell, who shared comments he’d heard from other people that the country had got its priorities wrong when it came to Covid and was perhaps putting too much emphasis on the pandemic compared to other things.

And Whitty’s response went viral because it managed to be unfailingly polite and totally brutal at the same time.

And here’s the transcript.

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