Key Highlights
- Why did a class warrior from Yorkshire accord such importance to the house journal of pinstriped Londoners?
- Before imbibing views, he told a journalist, he wanted “to get the facts”. In that spirit, let us parse a deal just struck by the governments of Donald Trump and Keir Starmer.
- You may not have heard much about this agreement on medicine, but it is huge in both financial and political significance – and Downing Street could not be more proud.
- A “world-beating deal,” boasts the science minister, Patrick Vallance.
- It “paves the way for the UK to become a global hub for life sciences,” claims the business secretary, Peter Kyle, with the government press release adding: “Tens of thousands of NHS patients will benefit.”Presented with such triumph, His Majesty’s press is up on its hindlegs.
