Of course Michelle Mone should be thrown out of the Lords, but others enabled her: turf them out too | Simon Jenkins
The cronyism and irresponsibility in government during the pandemic cannot go unpunished. Let the reckoning begin now
The Michelle Mone affair stinks. It shows that, under Boris Johnson, the British government was unfit for purpose, and is scarcely better today. While the Covid inquiry descends into a lawyers’ carnival, the PPE procurement scandal festers on.
In the spring of 2020, when the pandemic first broke, Wales’s first minister, Mark Drakeford, announced that there was “PPE in the system for everyone who needs it”. In the Welsh county of Gwynedd, hospitals, clinics, care homes and primary schools retorted that they had virtually none.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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