in his first appearance at the inquiry, sir chris whitty, england's chief medical officer and one ofrecognisable faces of the pandemic, is repeatedly asked to slow down for the stenographer taking notes. given the importance of the answer, i please keep it as slow as you can. i i apologise. the very big new idea was the idea of a lockdown. sir chris says it was almost impossible for scientists to plan for the idea of a national lockdown. it's a very radical thing to do. mandatory quarantine. really big thing. i would have thought it would be very surprising without this being requested by a senior politician or similar that a scientific committee would venture in between emergencies into that kind of extraordinarily major social intervention with huge economic and social ramifications. a question we hear throughout is whether planning in the uk focused on the wrong type of pandemic, one that couldn't be stopped or contained. the absolutely central problem with the planning in the uk was that the doctrine was wrong. the doctrine of the uk was to plan for the consequences of a disaster

and chris whitty's predecessor.is not as rich as it has been historically . and i'm just grateful that we have what we do have, although i do acknowledge it's under more pressure than it ever has been before. >> graham has got in touch with us today and he said i had nhs treatment for cancer. the staff were amazing. the system wasn't perfect, but the nhs saved my life . my national insurance life. my national insurance payments will never cover the cost of the treatment that i had. if people want to keep demanding more from the nhs, then they have to be prepared to pay then they have to be prepared to pay for it. the system needs streamlining it, says graham. >> yeah, lots of views and experiences, but i think it is important on this birthday to celebrate all the wonderful achievements in the nhs. thank you for telling us you so much for telling us emily's . emily's story. >> john yeah, we celebrate emily's life and john's whole role in that. thank you very much indeed . much indeed. >> stay with us. coming up, we'r

in his first appearance at the inquiry, sir chris whitty, england's chief medical officer and one ofy surprising without this being requested by a senior politician or similar that a scientific committee would venture in between emergencies into that kind of extraordinarily major social intervention with huge economic and social ramifications. a question we hear throughout is whether planning in the uk focused on the wrong type of pandemic, one that couldn't be stopped or contained. the doctrine of the uk was to plan for the consequences of a disaster. can we buy enough body bags? where are we going to bury the dead? and that was completely wrong. but central to pandemic planning needs to be, how do you stop the disaster from happening in the first place? a lot of the uk's planning for a pandemic was based on a new strain of influenza. preparation documents looked at an outbreak of swine flu from 2009. we are taking the preparations that are necessary and the precautions to prevent the incidence of this disease in this country. much more time was spent on pandemic flu and the dangers

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so a boat with chris whitty's hairline and a full beard and a voice deeper than barry white rocks up,fication documents and if one person thinks there's and if one person thinks there's a chance that they might be under 25, then they go into a school. it's worth noting some situations where this has actually happened. the fully grown who stabbed an grown man who stabbed an aspiring marine to death , lawang aspiring marine to death, lawang abdul posed as a young abdul ramzi, posed as a young afghan orphan after arriving in britain in 2019 and was allowed to study at winton academy in bournemouth. he was actually wanted by police in serbia after being sentenced in his absence to 20 years imprisonment for shooting two people dead. in an apparent argument over people smuggling, parsons green bomber ahmed hassan said he was 16 years old and an orphan when he entered the uk illegally in 2015 and claimed asylum as a 30 year old man who reportedly had a wife and two kids, spent six weeks posing as a 15 year old in a school in stoke in italy, medical examinations are used for assessments, alth

for me, it's the public health message and last year, sir chris whitty, his actual annual annual reporte in a caphal problem and we can't live in a capital. you and i know we both love this this city so much. the fact that 12 children die . i'm fact that 12 children die. i'm sorry it doesn't sit well with me, nor does it sit well with anybody . anybody. >> and i think everybody wants to see this. something done about the air. i don't think there's anybody all the gb news viewers, listeners and everyone , most of us all want really good air. they're about it. >> there is no easy way, though. >> there is no easy way, though. >> but yeah, go on. he has to do it way. if he's going to do it in a way. if he's going to do it, that to consider what it, that has to consider what people want as well people around want as well because it's. well, you know, i my to you, but my heart goes out to you, but there a lot of people who there were a lot of people who objected and he didn't get a complete didn't complete heart. he didn't get a he didn't get a majority of people agreeing with him. and isn't