u. k. parliament committee claims downing street botched, its response to the coven pandemic leading to thousands of debts that could have been avoided. now we're going to go live to alice tustin, founder of the covey, the victim campaign group names, not numbers now. ah alice, were you surprised by that report or was it just something that the british public had already suspected? well, i mean, i've been assigned to the last couple of years in my group manual numbers that the government has done an absolutely terrible job. and this is what happens when you have leaders in charge in a nurse, a society that don't know what they're doing and they didn't follow the science. they didn't listen to the experts and they didn't listen to other countries that warned them when italy said that this was coming on, them laughed. and if you look on other islands behaved by japan and so critical to south korea and they did a much better job outcome disgrace, they didn't listen. and also they didn't think about the lives they full about the money they for about the business contracts. and they didn't c

committees and both buquet houses of parliament will be asking serious questions. especially as so father ministers, i've not really been forthcoming with any anything worthwhile re in the u. k. a new reports, as the government has failed with as an a trust test and trace program and veiled as a coded contact tracing system. it's alleged the main objective of curbing carried or not achieved any chest test and trace has been one of the most expensive health programs to live in. the pandemic haven't been allocated and i watering 37000000000 pounds over 2 years. he has focused on delivering programs, but outcomes have been muddled, and a number of it's profess aims have been over stated or not achieved. and a chess test and trace is continued over alliance and consultants is likely to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds. so test and trace was launched 2 years ago and constant person, the equivalent of 20 percent of the and a trust annual budget. the programs flagship tracing system is an app which seizes if they come into prolonged contact with someone infected with cupboard. it drive it but not legally obliged them to south isolate for 10 days. tough partially though