The leader of Britain's successful Covid vaccine programme said that she was stuck to the ceiling with fury because of Matt Hancock's political posturing during the swine flu epidemic.
The head of the UK's vaccine task force said the former health secretary conducted an "extraordinary ambush" in a meeting in June 2020 and questioned her competence in front of cabinet colleagues and civil servants.
The former vaccines tsar claimed that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) took responsibility for vaccines from him because he was unhappy.
In a book to be released later this year, the man who resigned as health secretary after kissing and hugging his aide Gina Coladangelo is expected to challenge the criticisms made about him.
In an article for the Mail on Sunday, it was claimed that a virtual meeting was chaired by Michael Gove, who was a cabinet minister at the time.
The ex-vaccines chief thinks the UK science claim is overblown.
She was leading a team of experts who were going to find Covid vaccines that worked, ensure they could be manufactured at scale and then delivered into peoples' arms by the end of the year.
Before the meeting I asked Matt to give me advice on how to conduct myself. Our conversation was pleasant.
When it came to the committee discussion itself, the health secretary had traded in Dr Jekyll for Mr. Hyde.
She wrote that he said he couldn't understand why people his age wouldn't want a Covid vaccine for themselves.
She ordered only 30m doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which will be delivered in September 2020.
Matt snapped when he realized that it would be a miracle if we got 30m doses by Christmas. He was told by experts that things were impossible but later found out they were possible if enough effort was made.
I couldn't believe my eyes. In front of his cabinet colleagues and key officials, the health secretary accused me of a lack of ambition, questioning my competence, and told him he was wrong.
The other cabinet members approached her after the meeting. Gove could not have been more humiliated. The business secretary apologized to me. She said that others sent support.
The secretary of state was "insufficiently devious" to take him on and the taskforce was overseen by the head of the state.
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IfHancock threw rocks at me, then so be it.
She wrote that he knew that he would always win in a verbal punch-up with the mild-mannered Alok, who was nowhere near as aggressive.
The former chair of Glaxo was invited by Bingham to oversee the work of the task force.
If he didn't think much about anything, then he'd say so loudly. She wrote that a seal of approval from him would be as close to getting body armour as possible. The task force's work was approved in July 2020.
Bingham was praised for her work in making sure that the UK had enough Covid vaccine in the middle of the Pandemic.
The royalties from the book that will be published later this year will be given to charity, according to a spokesman for the minister.
The vaccine effort was a huge success thanks to a huge team effort from the National Health Service to the vaccine task force. The vaccine programme got the UK out of the Pandemic ahead of almost everywhere else in the world and Matt is proud that he insisted that everyone in the UK had access to a vaccine.
The person said that you would have to read Matt's book to find out what happened.
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