Jeremy Farrar: We’d like a nationwide consensus for the best way ahead

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Jeremy Farrar: We’d like a nationwide consensus for the best way ahead

A number one scientist who sits on the SAGE committee that advises the federal government has advised the BBC that the present row between Westmins


A number one scientist who sits on the SAGE committee that advises the federal government has advised the BBC that the present row between Westminster and native leaders is “very harmful”.

Professor Jeremy Farrar, who additionally directs the Wellcome Belief, advised the BBC’s Newscast podcast: “I feel we’ve obtained to return collectively as a rustic, this fragmentation, and admittedly making this both a north south or a celebration political difficulty, that’s a really harmful path to go on.”

“What we don’t need now could be a fragmentation, confusion – one space or area or metropolis pitched towards one other. I feel that might be very, very damaging to public well being and the nation’s means to reply,” he added.



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