GlaxoSmithKline sacks US vaccine tsar over sexual harassment claims

GlaxoSmithKline sacks US vaccine programme boss over sexual harassment allegations By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 24 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 24 March 2021 A GlaxoSmithKline executive who was poached to run the US vaccines programme has been fired by the British company over sexual harassment allegations. Moncef Slaoui, … Read more

Boris’s ex-homelessnes tsar warns Tories become ‘nasty party’ again if they cut Universal Credit

Boris Johnson’s former homelessness tsar Louise Casey warns Tories they risk becoming the ‘nasty party’ again if Rishi Sunak axes £20 increase in Universal Credit as Chancellor comes under pressure from Red Wall Conservatives to U-turn She said axing increase in March would be ‘too punitive’ for struggling families Told BBC it was not right, … Read more

Boris’s ex-homelessnes tsar warns Tories become ‘nasty party’ again if they cut Universal Credit

Boris Johnson’s former homelessness tsar Louise Casey warns Tories they risk becoming the ‘nasty party’ again if Rishi Sunak axes £20 increase in Universal Credit as Chancellor comes under pressure from Red Wall Conservatives to U-turn She said axing increase in March would be ‘too punitive’ for struggling families Told BBC it was not right, … Read more

Vaccines tsar Nadhim Zahawi admits vaccine target is ‘stretching’

Pharmacists have begged the Government to let small chains dish out coronavirus vaccinations to help Boris Johnson fulfill his ambitious promise of immunising 13million people and ending the national lockdown by March. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said today there were thousands of high street pharmacies ‘ready, willing and able’ to assist in the rollout of the … Read more

Vaccines tsar Nadhim Zahawi admits vaccine target is ‘stretching’

The government’s vaccines tsar today admitted that the NHS will need to be giving around three million vaccine doses a week by February to meet the PM’s target.     Nadhim Zahawi said goal of covering more than 13million of the most vulnerable within seven weeks was ‘very stretching’ – but can be delivered. Boris Johnson … Read more

‘We’re all going on a summer holiday!’ UK’s vaccine tsar says

Kate Bingham, head of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce, said it was her ‘gut feeling’ that summer holidays will be back on the cards next year and social distancing could be scrapped Summer holidays could be back on the cards next year and social distancing may be scrapped, Britain’s vaccine tsar suggested this morning. Asked when … Read more

Boris Johnson’s cycling tsar told council NOT to rip up hated Kensington High Street bike lane

Boris Johnson went ‘ballistic’ over the axing of a controversial cycling lane – and his cycling tsar pledged to send the Prime Minister riding down it if council leaders agreed not to remove it, it has been claimed.  The cycle lane in Kensington High Street has become the unlikely battleground in the row between cycling zealots … Read more

Boris Johnson’s cycling tsar told council NOT to rip up hated Kensington High Street bike lane

Boris Johnson went ‘ballistic’ over the axing of a controversial cycling lane – and his cycling tsar pledged to send the Prime Minister riding down it if council leaders agreed not to remove it, it has been claimed.  The cycle lane in Kensington High Street has become the unlikely battleground in the row between cycling zealots … Read more

Fears of chaos on rail network during the festive period prompts government to appoint travel tsar

Fears of chaos on Britain’s rail network during the festive period has prompted the government to appoint a travel tsar to help 2.2million people get home for Christmas.   Ministers are preparing urgent plans to prevent Christmas getaway chaos amid fears huge numbers of people will be unable to join their families during the five-day relaxation … Read more

Fears of chaos on rail network during the festive period prompts government to appoint travel tsar

Fears of chaos on Britain’s rail network during the festive period has prompted the government to appoint a travel tsar to help 2.2million people get home for Christmas.   Ministers are preparing urgent plans to prevent Christmas getaway chaos amid fears huge numbers of people will be unable to join their families during the five-day relaxation … Read more