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This is astonishing.
No 10 and ministers have always insisted the decision was nothing to do with ideology. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-uks-decision-not-join-21903329
No 10 and ministers have always insisted the decision was nothing to do with ideology. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-uks-decision-not-join-21903329
Matt Hancock denies this was political decision.
“There was no political decision not to participate in that scheme. We did receive an invitation in the Dept of Health and we joined. As far as I know that scheme hasn’t yet delivered a single item of PPE.”
Can’t both be right.
“There was no political decision not to participate in that scheme. We did receive an invitation in the Dept of Health and we joined. As far as I know that scheme hasn’t yet delivered a single item of PPE.”
Can’t both be right.
Somebody has been on the blower 
https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1252637396497248257?s=21 https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1252637396497248257
https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1252637396497248257?s=21 https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1252637396497248257
I understand that while we missed the early rounds of the EU procurement scheme, we have now joined a later one (which No 10 at the time said we would consider).
Govt claiming we haven’t missed out as we have spare ventilator capacity and scheme hasn’t produced PPE yet.
Govt claiming we haven’t missed out as we have spare ventilator capacity and scheme hasn’t produced PPE yet.
Top Foreign Office civil servant Simon McDonald - already in Dom Cummings’ sights - issues clarification and apology for suggesting ministers took “political decision” not to join EU procurement scheme. https://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/1252679936768344070
