Britain s extortionate twice-a-week coronavirus testing blitz has been a waste of money, critics warned today.
Boris Johnson launched the near-£3billion scheme at the start of the month, with everyone in England able to get two free lateral flow tests every week regardless of whether they have symptoms.
The kits, previously only routinely used in schools, hospitals and care homes, can either be shipped to people s homes or picked up in a local pharmacy free of charge.
The scheme – a watered down version of No10 s ambitious Operation Moonshot 10million-tests-a-day project – launched on April 9. Matt Hancock said at the time it would be one of our most effective weapons in tackling this virus .
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Since my last “
Licensing Expert” article for SBC News, the stand-out issues in UK gambling regulatory terms have been (a) the circumstances giving rise to the UK Government’s 20 April announcement of an independent review into the collapse of Football Index and (b) the sudden unexpected departure of Neil McArthur from his position as Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission within just a few days after the Football Index operating licence was suspended. You can read here the full details on what led up to that suspension and all that has happened since then.
The above announcement states that an ‘independent expert’ (a) will lead the review and (b) in addition to establishing how Football Index collapsed and identifying lessons to be learned from that, will look at the decisions and actions of the Gambling Commission with a view to the findings being made public in the summer. Those findings will also form part of the evidence for the purposes of the government’s rev