Gordon Brown is among a group of former world leaders and Nobel laureates calling on President Biden to waive intellectual property rules for Covid vaccines to accelerate global access to the jabs.
The former Labour prime minister is one of 175 former government heads and leading thinkers to co-sign an open letter to Biden. It says they are “gravely concerned” by the slow progress in making coronavirus vaccines readily available to people in low and middle-income countries.
The letter, which includes the former French president Francois Hollande and the Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz among its signatories, urges the US to support a proposal from the South African and Indian governments at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to temporarily waive intellectual property rights related to