Professor Dame Anne Glover challenged the assertion that Britain’s departure from the EU was a factorOne of Scotland’s most eminent scientists has condemned UK ministers’ repeated attempts to link the UK’s fast-track registration of the coronavirus vaccine to Brexit. Professor Dame Anne Glover, president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, corrected claims by Alister Jack, the Scottish secretary, that the UK would have had to wait for European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval of the vaccine if Britain had not left the EU. Mr Jack joined a growing roster of UK ministers linking the speed of approval of the vaccine to Brexit this morning. Yesterday, Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, told Times Radio that the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products regulatory Agency (MHRA) did not have to go “at the pace of the Europeans…because of Brexit”. Gavin Williamson, the

Source: The Times December 04, 2020 00:04 UTC