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Matt Hancock defends appointing Dido Harding to lead new health body

Guardian, 18 Aug 2020
The health secretary has defended the selection of the Tory peer and former TalkTalk chief executive to run the National Institute for Health Protection after the government decided to scrap Public Health England in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Harding heads England's widely criticised test-and-trace programme

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