Boris Johnson's determination to get Brexit done led to lives being lost to coronavirus, the SNP has claimed. The Nationalists slammed the Prime Minister after a report found many civil servants were focusing on the UK's departure from the EU in 2019 at the expense of other contingency plans.
The National Audit Office (NAO) found preparations for Brexit took up "a significant amount of time and resources across the civil service" department experts shifted away from their usual roles.
At one department - the Civil Contingencies Secretariat - 56 of its 94 full-time staff were working on no deal Brexit planning in March 2019 - limiting the resources it could devote to planning for other emergencies.The NAO said preparations for leaving the
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