Getting rid of PHE is a great idea - it's useless, costs a fortune and doesn't work.

Which legislation in particular?

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) said the move to merge PHE's pandemic functions with those of NHS Test and Trace raised more questions than answers, including the timing of an announcement on the scrapping of a national public health agency in the midst of a global pandemic.

RSPH chief executive Christina Marriott said: "We recognise that there have been some serious challenges in terms of our response to Covid-19, including the timing of the lockdown, the ongoing ineffectiveness of Tier 2 Track and Trace and postcode-level data previously not being available to directors of public health."

She said "multiple lessons" needed to be learned "before solutions can be in place in advance of the winter", adding: "to do otherwise risks avoidable mistakes in subsequent waves of the pandemic which will only harm the public's health further."

Munira Wilson, the Liberal Democrat's health, wellbeing and social care spokesperson criticised the decision to promote a "Tory insider who's been responsible for the sub-par Test and Trace system".

She said in a tweet that "total transparency" was needed when it came to such appointments.

The health and social care act.

Dido Harding to be temporary head of new health agency



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53813480



With Harding in charge of controlling a pandemic there'll be bodies on the streets by Christmas .....

Hi

Replaced by Dido Harding?

Mass resignations.

She is a lying idiot.

In October 1995, Harding married John Penrose, who was elected MP for Weston-super-Mare in 2005 and went on to hold junior minister posts from 2010 to 2019. Penrose sits on the advisory board of think tank '1828', which 'calls for the NHS to be replaced by an insurance system and for Public Health England to be scrapped'.

Unlike Serco...