With our NHS heroes dying in hospitals, it is unforgivable that the Government cannot guarantee when frontline staff will get enough protective equipment.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock either will not or cannot tell us when this scandal will be rectified.
So should dedicated workers refuse to treat patients unless they’re given adequate equipment – as the Royal College of Nursing is informing members to do as a last resort – then the blame rests with Mr Hancock and his boss Boris Johnson.
Reciting statistics on the number of items supposedly distributed is meaningless when people at the sharp end know the terrible truth – that they are still too often asked to care for infectious patients without basic protection.
Had the government properly funded the NHS instead of squeezing the life out of it for a decade we’d be in a much better position.
In this battle, our key worker heroes are found in the NHS, care homes, shops, food factories, lorries, buses, trains, power stations, water plants, town halls, civil service offices, police and fire stations.
Hancock and his Tory colleagues are letting all of them – and the rest of us – down.
