MoD ponders cloning Kate Bingham

There is a persistent cry in Whitehall: where do senior civil servants find another Kate Bingham? Or, indeed, can they please hire Kate Bingham?

The astonishing success of the former vaccines tsarina in ordering 400 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines in around seven months has so impressed even the crustiest of senior civil servants – more used to taking seven years to deliver their projects – that they are crying out for their own version.