"Austerity Left UK Woefully Unprepared" Every Detail From David Cameron's Covid Inquiry Grilling

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David Cameron has conceded it was a “mistake” for his government to focus too heavily on preparations for combating a wave of influenza rather than a coronavirus-like pandemic.

The Conservative former prime minister told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Monday that “many consequences” followed from the focus on pandemic flu rather than other respiratory illnesses.

Mr Cameron defended the programme of austerity cuts to public services under his leadership between 2010 and 2016 that medics and unions have blamed for leaving the NHS in a “parlous state”.

In a statement read to the inquiry, his chancellor George Osborne argued that the approach taken following the 2008 financial crisis “had a material and positive effect on the UK’s ability to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic”.

Mr Cameron faced a number of heckles including “Shame on you” as he left the inquiry after being the first politician to have been questioned by it.

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