Head of MHRA

After reading Archie Bland`s article, many Guardian readers will be asking is whether June Raine, the head of the medical regulator, MHRA, is the right person to be "assessing the vaccines that are supposed to end the coronavirus crisis" ( Woman with final say on which vaccines we can use, 28/11/20). Spending years as the MHRA`s director of "vigilance and risk management of medicines division" is all very well, but does she really meet the government`s requirements for such an important role? For a start she is not married to a Tory MP, and was not appointed to the post as a result of lobbying by associates in the Commons. Her life has been "devoted to public health", with no experience whatsoever of working for accounting firms like Deloitte, or even an outsourcing firm like Serco. Has she ever employed her own media team, let alone paid one absurd amounts of taxpayers` money? She probably doesn`t even run a pub close to the Health Secretary`s constituency home (Hancock`s ex-neighbour won Covid-19 kit work, 27/11/20)! Hardly a basis for joining the UK`s "world-beating" team!