It was hailed as Britain’s flagship ‘megalab’, a £1.1 billion cutting-edge diagnostic centre to counter Covid-19 and defend the nation in opposition to future epidemics.
Asserting the venture in November 2020, then-health secretary Matt Hancock stated the laboratory ‘confirms the UK as a world chief in diagnostics’, able to finishing up 300,000 exams a day.
However three years later, the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory – named in honour of the famend British scientist – stands empty, a monument to waste and incompetence, and up on the market on the property web site Rightmove.
