A Tory MP and Government minister has admitted that if the nation had locked down earlier and shut its borders 'we would have had a lower death toll.' Apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan also revealed a series of missteps and called the guidance issued in March allowing patients to be discharged into care homes without a test 'a catastrophic mistake.' The MP for Chichester was speaking on BBC's Question Time last night, and was answering questions about what had contributed to the UK's soaring coronavirus death toll.
She said: “We had no testing to start with, we had to put it in place. We had not enough ventilators in hospitals, we had to get more. "There were not enough staff in the hospitals, we had to get more.
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