Three stories this morning... 🔴 Delivery of 84 tonnes of protective equipment for NHS delayed 🔴 Govt 'lost a crucial five weeks' to tackle threat of COVID 🔴 Star-studded lockdown concert raises money
Ministers are comparing his appointment to that of Daily Express proprietor Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production by Winston Churchill on the eve of the Battle of Britain in May 1940 to galvanise the output of fighter planes.The delayed delivery from Turkey is only a short-term emergency measure - and Lord Deighton's task will be to spearhead moves to accelerate the manufacture of PPE in the UK in the longer term.to lessen the impact of the coronavirus in February and March.
According to an investigation by The Sunday Times, dire warnings were ignored from scientists - and the UK lost"a crucial five weeks in the fight to tackle the dangerous threat of
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