Government 'ignored pandemic recommendations', claims Sir Ed Davey | LBC
July 17, 2020
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as posted by the channelThe Government "did not follow" pandemic recommendations, co-leader of the Lib Dems Sir Ed Davey has claimed.
Speaking with LBC's Iain Dale as part of his Lib Dem leadership bid, the acting co-leader asked why Government ministers were not better prepared for the coronavirus pandemic.
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He accused Boris Johnson and other Cabinet ministers of failing to implement the recommendations of the 2016 Cygnus exercise - a simulation carried out by NHS England in 2016 to establish the impact of a pandemic on the UK.
"The big decisions on how we deal with something like this pandemic are at the beginning, and indeed before the beginning in the lead up to it," he said.
"So one of the big questions on the coronavirus inquiry is 'why weren't we better prepared?'
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