Test-and-trace chief Dido Harding should quit, says senior Tory

Bernard Jenkin MP warns of a ‘vacuum of leadership’ that is destroying public trust

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Baroness Harding, the Tory peer who leads the government’s much-criticised test-and-trace programme, should be removed and replaced, a senior Conservative MP has said.

Sir Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and chair of the powerful parliamentary liaison committee, called for her to be given a “well-earned rest” and moved on to focus on “lessons learned”.

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