Originally Posted by
cyril evans awaydays
I broadly agree with the points you make but what we are getting from Boris Johnson is "now is not the time" for such an enquiry.
This does not seem to have stopped either he or the team at No 10 feeding little drips of poison into the media against who they think should be the scapegoats for the failures (i.e not them).
In this regard it also suits that PHE, rightly or wrongly, are one of the main targets of these negative briefings as, pointed out earlier, they report directly to DHSC, whose Secretary of State, Matt Hancock is surely being lined up as one of the fall guys to take a bullet for Johnson and Cummings.
Where the truth is in all of this heaven knows but in modern populist politics that seems to be one of the last concerns.