Prospective Manchester United owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe may need to pick up a Class of ’92 DVD after attacking the new Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary.
The country’s richest man and Chairman and founder of INEOS Group wrote a letter to The Times welcoming the setting up of the Department, but he had reservations about its boss:
“Science over the past four centuries in Britain has been prolific: Cambridge alone has more Nobel prizewinners than any country on earth except the US and the UK, and Oxford follows closely.
“British “firsts” range from the steam engine, computer, telephone and jet engine to the world wide web, IVF and Covid vaccine.
“However, the new science secretary is only 38 and is a history and politics graduate from York University. The government surely has to be kidding.”
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology was announced earlier this week, with Michelle Donelan moving from the DCMS to take on the role.
The 38 year-old history and politics graduate has yet to respond to Ratcliffe’s comments, but did upload a film of herself getting down to chemistry this morning:
