It’s rare that any government – not least Keir Starmer’s – does something to which there can be no even vaguely arguable objection. Today’s announcement that the NHS will begin vaccinating all babies against chickenpox next year is a rare exception. The vaccine rollout should be welcomed by everyone.

The only serious question that should be asked is why it has taken so long for us to seek to wipe out chickenpox

The only serious question that should be asked is why it has taken so long for us to seek to wipe out chickenpox. The vaccine is 98 per cent effective and, if taken up sufficiently, chickenpox will simply no longer happen in Britain.

But the operative words here are ‘if taken up sufficiently’, because while are no vaguely arguable objections, there are all too many unarguable obj

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