Runnymede Trust wins court battle over key government appointments during coronavirus pandemic
The former UK health secretary Matt Hancock did not comply with a public sector equality duty when he appointed the Conservative peer Dido Harding as head of a new public health quango, the high court has ruled.
The race and equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust successfully won its claim against the government over the appointment of Harding as chair of the National Institute for Health Protection, as well as the appointment of Mike Coupe as director of testing at NHS test and trace.
