I've got three things to say about the joint venture between GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca to automate and speed up processes in existing NHS labs that test for #Covid19 and also build a kind of new age laboratory that would use new reagents and techniques for even more...

efficient testing. 1) It is a highly significant initiative that takes two of the world's biggest and most success pharmaceutical companies into diagnostics, and could have long term benefits to them and the UK. 2) The process improvements in labs could increase testing...

capacity in UK within weeks and even the newfangled lab could make a contribution before too long. 3) All of this has only been discussed and agreed this week, with the big meeting - involving @MattHancock - happening only last night. So why on earth didn't the government...

rope them into helping many weeks ago, before the NHS and national crisis became so critical?