The Health Secretary will use a speech in Oxford this afternoon to praise the swift work in creating new wonder drugs, claiming it helped save more than a million lives.
Ex-No10 adviser Dominic Cummings claimed Rishi Sunak did not try to block the first lockdown in March last year despite powerful voices in the Treasury warning against the dangers of shutdown.
The Health Secretary was arriving at his north London home when he was asked to respond to the former No10 chief aide s claims he was a serial liar who should have been sacked.