This is now getting very messy. Matt Hancock directly contradicts FCO PUS Sir Simon McDonald on EU ventilators to insist "there was no political decision not to participate in that scheme". Hancock says the UK is now in the EU scheme. No10 had not announced that.
The ‘clarification’, just in from Sir Simon McDonald. There has been “a misunderstanding”. As retractions go, this one is up there with John Cleese’s while being hung out of a window by Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda 🐟.
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