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New Year Honours: Whitty, Van-Tam and Blair knighted, Lumley and Redgrave made dames

By Owen Amos
BBC News


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Sir Chris Whitty, Dame June Raine, Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, and Dame Jenny Harries

Prof Chris Whitty and Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, who became household names during the Covid-19 pandemic, have been knighted in the New Year Honours list.

Both men - who will now have "Sir" before their name - have regularly briefed the nation from Downing Street.
Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, and Dr June Raine, head of the vaccines regulator MHRA, are both made dames.

And Tony Blair is knighted, being appointed to the Order of the Garter.

Unlike the main New Year Honours list, which is advised on by the prime minister's office, the Order of the Garter is a royal appointment.

The former prime minister said it was "an immense honour" and he was "deeply grateful to Her Majesty the Queen".


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Prof Whitty - now Sir Chris - is the chief medical officer for England and the UK government's chief medical adviser. He has appeared at Downing Street news conferences since March 2020, as well as fronting TV campaigns about Covid-19.

He is also a practising NHS consultant at London hospitals, and represents the UK on the executive board of the World Health Organization.



Prof Van-Tam has been the deputy chief medical officer for England since 2017, and has captured the public's imagination with his vivid metaphors at news conferences.



In late 2020 - while describing the early stages of the pandemic - he said "it's clear the away team gave us an absolute battering".


A year later, in November 2021, he warned "the final whistle hasn't blown" in the pandemic, but did predict we were in "half time of extra time".

The government's chief scientific adviser Prof Sir Patrick Vallance - who was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours - is given a higher honour, being made a knight commander of the Order of the Bath.


That's the same rank as Prof Whitty, who was previously a commander of the Order of the Bath. Prof Van-Tam is a regular "knight bachelor" - but he, Prof Vallance, and Prof Whitty, will all have the title "Sir".

The chief medical officer for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton, is made a knight, as is Prof Gregor Smith, the chief medical officer for Scotland. Emily Lawson, who has led England's vaccination deployment, becomes a dame.

/*src.: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59809682
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