WHAT HAVE WHO DONE FOR ME LATELY? Boris urged to follow Trump and pull billions in funding from World Health Organisation

But now the UK, the biggest donor to the organisation outside of the US, has also been urged to pull funding.

Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, said: “The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the World Health Organisation needs to be reformed or replaced.

“As the organisation’s second-biggest funder, the UK should follow America’s lead. In 2018, the UK gave the WHO $200m, the equivalent of billions of face masks or thousands of ICU ventilators.

“It needs to be made clear that the WHO leadership has to be replaced and the agency has to return to its core mission of tackling epidemics with transparency, honesty and a single-minded focus.