Fiction readers have made best leaders in Covid-19 crisis, says Val McDermid

Crime author argues ministers who read only political biographies are limited in vision

The most impressive political leaders during the coronavirus crisis have one thing in common, one of Britain’s most popular novelists believes: they all read fiction.

In contrast, the leader of one of the most “shambolic” responses is reading endless biographies of men who have gone before him, the “queen of crime”, Val McDermid, lamented at the Edinburgh international book festival.

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