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Matt Hancock denies Government’s vaccines tsar was told to quit over decision to spend £670,000 on PR consultants as he insists Kate Bingham’s role was ‘a six month project’ and she always planned to step down at the end of the year Head of the Government’s Vaccine Taskforce facing criticism over PR spending Kate Bingham … Read more
Kate Bingham told the Financial Times less than half of the UK population will get a coronavirus vaccine if one is produced Hopes of ending the Covid-19 pandemic with a vaccine were dealt a blow today as a senior British health chief warned the first approved jabs may not work. Kate Bingham, head of the … Read more
Henry Dimbleby, the Government’s food tsar, said ministers need to do more to tackle food poverty Boris Johnson’s own food tsar yesterday accused him of ‘not doing enough’ to prevent children going hungry – as he urged Downing Street to spend £1.2 billion tackling the problem. Henry Dimbleby, the co-founder of the Leon restaurant, demanded … Read more
Henry Dimbleby, the Government’s food tsar, said ministers need to do more to tackle food poverty The Government’s own food tsar today told Boris Johnson he ‘isn’t doing enough’ to tackle food poverty amid a growing Tory revolt over the free school meals row. Henry Dimbleby, the co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain and an … Read more
BBC has failed to connect with white working class audiences and must do more to make them feel represented, says head of diversity June Sarpong June Sarpong said her work to reach all groups would include the working class Said BBC had ‘serious issues’ with reaching communities like one she grew up in Also told … Read more
Russia has released previously-unseen top secret footage of the largest nuclear explosion ever to take place – caused when the country detonated its Tsar Bomba device over the Barents Sea in 1961. Soviet photographers struggled to capture the scale of the blast caused by the 50 megaton thermonuclear bomb, which exploded with the force of … Read more
Despite tumbling infection rates, there is not the faintest hint of triumphalism here at the south London nerve centre of the national fight against coronavirus. And the man whose task is to protect all those on the front line has a very simple plan of action when it comes to future shortages of kit: Never … Read more
There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS’ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive horseracing committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse … Read more
This has been a busy old crisis for Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who has rolled back the years to turn himself once more into a staple of the nation’s TV and radio news schedules. The sprightly 80-year-old, who gained fame as the face of the … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has appointed a ‘personal protective equipment tsar’ to take on the shortage of supplies across NHS trusts in the UK. Lord Deighton, 64, has been appointed to get a grip on the situation, as thousands of doctors and nurses across the country are being forced to work without the correct PPE. … Read more