Worrying if this is true. Public need confidence in this for it to work. To date, the Govt have given folk **** all reason to trust them on anything.
‘Today it emerged that Dido Harding, who has been appointed by Boris Johnson to take charge of the government's Track and Trace operation, is also Racecourse Committee director at Cheltenham Racecourse and a director of Racecourse Holdings Trust, which later became Jockey Club Racecourses. She was appointed a board member of the Jockey Club in December 2017. The Jockey Club owns Cheltenham Racecourse.
In mid-March, Cheltenham Racecourse decided not to cancel its four-day festival event, attended by over 250,000 people, even though the WHO had declared a pandemic and the virus was already spreading in the UK. Scientists have since determined that this event fuelled infection and "caused increased suffering and death".
Not to worry, though. Dido Harding has an excellent track record in business: she was the boss of TalkTalk when the data of four million customers was stolen.
Oh, and she is married to John Penrose MP, who is Boris Johnson's "Anti-Corruption Champion".
Just as well Track and Trace - the success of which is crucial if we are to exit the lockdown without more major outbreaks of Covid-19 - is in such safe hands.‘