"Imagine if, instead of casually handing £120 million here & there to their mates, the govt actually invested in building proper, long-term, public lab capacity. We could call them, I dunno, NHS labs or something."
Government-approved private test providers are under investigation following reports of several failures to protect travellers.
One Brit who lives in Italy said she did not tell her son that children who live in the UK do not have to go through the same travel testing and isolation because “he would find it very unfair”.
Test and Trace was found to “not deliver value for taxpayers” and relying too heavily on private consultants.