Patrick Vallance says government working with Chinese officials to remove postings from Alibaba after Biobank data breach last weekThere have been further listings of confidential health records of UK volunteers on the Chinese...
Read MoreDepartment of health, not Treasury, will foot the bill – with costs forecast to reach £9bnThe cost of the government’s drug pricing deal with the Trump administration will come out of the NHS budget instead of the Treasury’s and...
Read MorePatrick Vallance says robots would take away ‘repetitive’ tasks, but Sadiq Khan warns AI will usher in ‘new era of mass unemployment’Advances in AI and robotics will transform human jobs, starting with roles in warehouses and...
Read MoreReport on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10UK politics live –latest updatesThe UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official...
Read MoreNational security adviser, education secretary and science minister to visit before end of year as part of policy to reset relationsMinisters are pushing ahead with their reset of relations with China including several planned...
Read MoreBurnham says he loves ‘everything about this job’ and that he will support the Labour party ‘in whatever way I can’Sweeney asked about Northern Powerhouse Rail, and reports it is being shelved again.Burnham said these reports...
Read MorePatrick Vallance says relations must improve and NHS has to reverse decline in drugs investmentThe UK is “determined to solve” its standoff with the pharmaceutical industry and reverse a 10-year decline in NHS spending on...
Read MorePatrick Vallance says UK must improve relations with pharmaceuticals industry as firms scrap plansThe UK is “determined to solve” its standoff with the pharmaceutical industry and reverse a 10-year decline in NHS spending on...
Read MoreFormer chief scientific adviser makes remark as DSIT announces reopening of recruitment for key roleThe Labour minister Patrick Vallance, who helped spearhead the country’s response to the Covid pandemic, has said he would not...
Read MoreCovid adviser Patrick Vallance and businessman James Timpson among appointments from outside WestminsterKeir Starmer has signalled he will appoint more non-political experts as ministers in his new administration, in an apparent...
Read MoreFormer UK chief scientific adviser warns ‘we are not ready yet’ and urges next government to prepareUK politics live – latest updatesThe former chief scientific adviser to the government Sir Patrick Vallance has said another...
Read MoreShadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political figuresSenior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet have been meeting with top Whitehall mandarins and former cabinet...
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