{"id":418037,"date":"2026-02-10T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418037\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:08:07","slug":"us-uk-pharma-deal-isnt-enough-to-get-astrazeneca-investing-in-britain-again-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418037\/","title":{"rendered":"US-UK pharma deal isn\u2019t enough to get AstraZeneca investing in Britain again \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt will probably not be sufficient for many of these fully innovative products,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to remember the risk, not only the cost, but the risk involved in the development.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have ramped up their lobbying efforts \u2014 including a visit by health minister Seema Malhotra to AstraZeneca\u2019s Cambridge site last week \u2013 where she met with the UK chair Shaun Grady to discuss how both sides could work together to drive innovation both domestically and abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, with the final text of the agreement not yet settled, Soriot stressed the company needs to \u201cunderstand the practical implementation of this,\u201d adding that AstraZeneca is still \u201cworking with the government [to] see how we can actually shape the environment and help patients.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also warned the challenge extends beyond Britain, saying \u201cit\u2019s not only a question in the U.K., it\u2019s a question across Europe in many countries where access has to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EU has not struck a similar pharmaceutical deal with the Trump administration, even as lobbyists point to the U.K\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/pharma-lobbyists-to-eu-cut-deals-with-trump-00673564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">model<\/a> as a potential blueprint for Europe to emulate to maintain competitiveness in the life sciences sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soriot gave \u201can important message to Europe that unfortunately [with] all these investments that happen in the U.S\u2026the risk for Europe is to end up with supplies for generics from India and China and for innovative medicines to be supplied from the U.S. and China.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt will probably not be sufficient for many of these fully innovative products,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,14094,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-418037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-pharma","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}