Looking at the agenda for our Life Sciences Summit on May the 21st, there's so much turmoil right now over drug pricing.
It's a massive conflict between industry innovation and the reality of the NHS budgets.
Yeah, it 's a fascinating topic and the NHS has done its job of getting extremely cheap drugs and then President Trump
has done his job of saying, but hang on, you 're free riding on all of our research money
and marrying that tension has been really hard.
This is something that I think we'll be looking into on the day.
Yeah, it's going to be really interesting to hear from our speakers like Patrick Vallance and Melanie Iverson.
Everyone listening it 's it 's already a heavily subscribed event we 've got over 200 of the best in the sector
signed up to join us i'm definitely looking forward to tackling those tough conversations though and having a real look
at what 's happening across the sector yeah look i mean obviously go to the times.
com forward slash events to find out more in the early hours of the 8th of may we are going to witness Another,
even bigger, more dramatic political earthquake when reform achieved results in Sunderland
and elsewhere that nobody can yet believe.
Potential nightmare for Keir Starmer is this.
While Labour come third in Scotland, third in Wales,
they lose control of Barnsley and Sunderland and places like that to reform,
and they lose significant seats in London to the green.
Always think of that scene in superman where lewis lane falls out of the window and she gets captured by caught by superman
and he says do n't worry ma'am i 've got you and she says you 've got me who 's got you we should ask that about rachel reeves
welcome to the state of it the political podcast from the times and the sunday times i'm stephen swinford the political editor