There really is zero excuse for any persons in government who since 2016 were well aware that a pandemic would cause gross shortages of PPE in the UK. It is piss poor to not have had a reserve army of suppliers to mass procure from if needed. People need to stop hiding behind

This unprecedented line. That& #39;s why a drill was completed 4 years ago, to enable planning. If you had a fire drill at work, there were loads of improvements required on the back of it, you did fuck all for 4 years, then had a real fire killing people you WOULD NOT be excused.

And the charlatans who did nothing on the back of that pandemic rehearsal back in 2016 100% need holding to account on a monumental scale. Stop excusing mass incompetence. In every other industry people would get removed from position. Government should be no different.