The former Director of Public Health launched a withering attack on the Government's "embarrassing" handling of the coronavirus outbreak on Question Time.
Professor John Ashton told the audience in West Bromwich on Thursday that four or five weeks had been "lost" because the country had failed to get to grips with the deadly bug quickly enough.
He warned that the virus "was amongst us" and that now it would be left with the community to deal with. Professor Ashton, Director of Public Health for six years said: "I don't know where to start really.
I'm embarrassed by the situation in this country. "This talk of four stages and we're now moving on from the containment thing - we've lost the plot here. "We haven't taken the action we should
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