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The woman who led Britain’s successful vaccine task force warned that “collective thinking and risk aversion” in the civil service leaves the country vulnerable to future threats from climate change to cyber warfare.
In a frank attack on foot-dragging in Whitehall, Ms Kate Bingham said the country would have faced months of delays in getting vaccinations if it had been up to the government’s normal machinery.
She attacked the “devastating shortage of skills and experience in science, industry, and manufacturing” in government as she accused civil servants of treating business with “hostility and suspicion”.
• Dame Kate Bingham: Britain is moving away from innovators in the life sciences
Whitehall is obsessed with avoiding blame and panic over media controversy while the promotion system fails to weed out the poor.
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