The BBC (and I'm sure they're not alone in media reporting) have filleted the critical bits from a longer and more measured piece in the Sunday Times tinyurl.com/tauajza (paywalled). It includes much that is constructive around the current emergency. It is the job of opposition to hold government to account and mistakes, some of which were foreseeable, have been and perhaps continue to be made.
His criticism is focused on the issues of testing and PPE. On the former the government has been conspicuously unprepared in spite of World Health Organisation guidelines and experience of other countries like S Korea and Singapore who tested quickly and at volume. They were also able to do stuff that would be politically and socially unacceptable here but the government were, at best, slow out of the blocks. The amount of control placed in hands of Public Health England for example looks like it's been a drag.
The promises for the end of this month are both lacking in detail and achievability.
On PPE we've seen enough here from Zippy and Rudedog who have close experience of the mess ups to suggest there is a serious case to answer.
I don't think Starmer has said anything that's not already been said by former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as chair of the Commons Health Select Committee.
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