PM calls for ‘Babs’army’
BORIS Johnson is launching a new “national mission” to tackle dementia in memory of the late Dame Barbara Windsor.
The Prime Minister said the Government would commit an additional £95million in research cash, meeting a manifesto commitment to double funding into seeking treatments for the disease by 2024.
And he issued an appeal for a “Babs’ army” of volunteers to take part in clinical trials on therapies.
It follows a meeting earlier this week in Downing Street between Mr Johnson and Barbara’s widower, Scott Mitchell.
The actress, who died in 2020, helped spearhead a campaign to raise awareness of dementia after Mr Mitchell disclosed in 2018 that she had been diagnosed four years earlier.
Mr Johnson said: “I am delighted we can honour Dame Barbara in such a fitting way, launching a new national dementia mission in her name.”
Mr Mitchell added: “Barbara would be proud she has had this legacy.”