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Reaction to the highly critical report of the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has begun, with ex-adviser to the PM Dominic Cummings branding both Boris Johnson and the Labour leader as “jokes”.
Thousands of lives were lost due to delays and mistakes by both ministers and their scientific advisers as coronavirus began to spread, the MPs’ report said.
The report published by the health and social care committee and the science and technology committee, titled Coronavirus: Lessons learned to date, covers a variety of successes and failings across 150 pages.
The pandemic has claimed more than 150,000 lives in the UK to date.
Some have suggested the country did not go into lockdown soon enough, partly through concern that people would not stick to restrictive measures for long periods of time, while others suggest the government system for dealing with crises in general was a big failing.
Here’s what been said so far by some of those involved:
Stephen Barclay
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Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay refused to apologise for the government’s failings in the handling of the pandemic 11 times
Former treasury minister and now Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay told Sky News the government followed the advice given by scientific advisers.
“We followed, throughout, the scientific advice. We got the vaccine deployed extremely quickly, we protected our NHS from the surge of cases,” he said.
Asked again by Kay Burley if he would be apologising in the wake of the report, Mr Barclay replied: “Well no, we followed the…
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