Chronicle of incompetence.
Downing Street insisted afterwards that Britain was "well prepared" and Chris Whitty, the government's chief medical adviser for England, praised the country's "strong track record of managing new forms of infectious diseases". Shortly after he succeeded May last July, Johnson abolished the governme...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 149; no. 5527; pp. 24 - 31 |
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