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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wearing a face mask, talks with a paramedic during a visit to the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
A CROSS-PARTY group of MPs has lambasted the government’s “astonishing” failure to plan for the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout, in a damning report published today.
The Commons public accounts committee (PAC) urged the government to provide reassurances that it will be able to cope with a second spike of infections.
Ministers must “learn lessons” from from their inadequate response so far, and “ensure [government] doesn’t repeat its mistakes again,” it said.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people