Yes, it depends on your perspective.
For a nurse in the NHS, 84k seems a HUGE amount of money, but for a middle manager working for any Investment bank or similar in London it's a normal salary.
As has been said, to get talented people, you need to raise the ceiling, as commercial salaries...
Randox was the company who ran the test centres that f**ked up all of those Covid tests...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/tory-linked-firm-involved-in-testing-failure-awarded-new-347m-covid-contract
Re distorting the facts. The Daily Mail know they can't ignore this story like the other you mention on point 2, but what they have done is subtle and clever.
Read this front page. What is NOT mentioned?