“I felt very strongly that we were conducting a strategy that was not following the prime minister’s goals.
So the government was following a very clear two-tier strategy where the clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised patients were being deprioritised in favour of those who were able to receive vaccines.
And I felt that was manifestly wrong, both ethically and morally, but also did not follow the goals that we’d been set, which was to protect the entire population.”
Dame Kate Bingham