PMQs: Boris Johnson to face Keir Starmer as inflation hits 40-year high and rail strikes continue – UK politics live

MPs are expected to grill the PM on the cost of living crisis and ongoing rail strikes

• Largest teaching union threatens strike action
• UK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 years
• Brexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claims

Moderna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:

We all saw during the pandemic the differences that cutting edge vaccines and treatments can make and we all particularly saw that the mRNA technology has been very transformational. It has literally saved millions of lives over the last couple of years.

And that’s why I’m thrilled to announce this new partnership between the UK government and Moderna, where Moderna will established here in the UK, a global R and D facility with over £1bn for investment in this cutting edge technology, and also a huge manufacturing centre, their largest outside of the US, and so this is a great investment in the UK, and gives huge confidence to our life sciences sector already leading in Europe.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

Content Creator: Andrew Sparrow

Date: 2022-06-22T11:00:39+0000