"Our pandemic response was world-leading. Handing control to a secretive international body will only make things worse"

Telegraph: 30th April 2024: John Redwood writes about why the UK should not sign WHO treaty 

"The UK is holding a long and expensive inquiry into how its various governments handled the covid epidemic... In due course the work of the committee will trigger more Parliamentary and public debate... It should mean we enter any future health alarm better prepared..."

...the World Health Organisation... published data and advice on how to handle matters, and seemingly sought to be a world Government for the pandemic. Despite this, it is not holding an open public inquiry into what it got right and wrong... 

It is alarming, then, that the WHO is now seeking to lock us into a new treaty which would empower it to set a policy on stockpiles and access to medicines, vaccines and health equipment, including obliging Britain to hand over... 

...The public expect their elected Ministers to make the decisions that affect us all and keep us safe, in an accountable Parliament and with much debate and criticism to try to get it right.... 

In a future crisis I am sure the UK will offer leadership, be helpful to others and attentive to all that is best about World Health Organization research and knowledge. What we do not need is a power loss to sort things out quickly, or an army of lawyers running the policy..."

FULL ARTICLE HERE

[PopCon says: This deserves much more scrutiny than the media seem to be giving it right now. 

UPDATE: Read PopCon Blog on this here: "WHO are you?"

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