“Virtually every week another job or public sector contract is handed to a friend of the Conservative Party behind closed doors. It’s unfair – and it shuts out much of the talent we need properly to handle the crisis.”
Sir Philip Rutnam, who was the Home Office’s permanent secretary, quit earlier this year, accusing the Cabinet minister of a “vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign” against him.
“They failed to learn. They failed to listen. And they failed to lead. The result is tragic – but all too predictable.”
Data released last week showed that two in five close contacts of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in England are still not being reached by the Test and Trace system.
"The prime minister, who follows the science, ignored the science. And the big question now is, how many people are going to die now."
"How much damage is going to be done, because Sage scientists had suggested a couple of weeks’ circuit-breaker, we now know it’s going to be at least four weeks."
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“The Government must not squander the time afforded to them through another lockdown to enable mass testing and fix test and trace systems – which hold the key to a lasting exit strategy for both public health and the economy.”
Iain Duncan Smith said: "Just as the economy was picking up, even giving cause for optimism, we’re now to impersonate the Grand Old Duke of York, giving in to the scientific advisers & marching England back into another lockdown."