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The Health Secretary took a thinly-veiled swipe at SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon who wants to break Scotland away from the union with an independence referendum. Speaking at the Jenner Institute in Oxford ahead of the G7 health ministers’ meeting, Matt Hancock said the union has “saved lives” when rolling out the Covid vaccine. He noted that the country is “safer” as a result of the union.
He said: “I was determined to overcome political differences so we could deliver for citizens where they lived across the country.
“It wasn’t easy getting this UK-wide approach and before last March I decided to go see all the devolved ministers so we were on the same page.
“The importance of the union has never been clearer in the UK vaccine effort.
“England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – we drew on our collective strengths to deliver a vaccination programme.
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“It was only because we worked collectively like this together as one united kingdom that we have been able to pull this off.
“The Union has saved lives and we’re safer across the whole country as a result.”
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