James O'Brien's reaction to UK having the worst Covid-19 death toll in Europe | LBC

This was James O’Brien’s response to the news that the UK now has the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe.

Figures from the Office of National Statistics have shown that the UK has overtaken Italy as the country with the most deaths in Europe. James O'Brien was evidently distraught by the news and led to him questioning our response to the pandemic.

James began by questioning the UK's relatively slow response to the outbreak "despite having those alarm bells back in January" and with mainland Europe being significantly hit in February. He was critical of how he saw the media tiptoeing around the UK's coronavirus response.

"At what point do the increasingly desperate and pathetic attempts to portray the government's performance as anything other than catastrophic stop?"

He addressed the reluctance of authorities or the media to scrutinise the response and asked "when is the time? When will the government give me permission to scrutinise the government?"

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