Who said it

“In spring 2020 you had a situation where the Department of Health was just a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE. You had serious problems with the funding bureaucracy for therapeutics. We also had the EU proposal which looked like an absolute guaranteed programme to fail”

- Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, on the Department of Health and Social Care.

“It is confusing to understand why so many countries have decided to stop using the vaccine... this is going to directly lead to an increased incidence of Covid infection and people will die as a consequence” - Professor Jeremy Brown, from the UK’S Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, on the consequence of the decision to halt rollout of the Astrazeneca vaccine.

“I think it takes some explaining, because the world’s watching. We’ve, all of us, including with our European friends, been saying throughout the pandemic that you’d be wrong to curtail or interfere with lawfully contracted supply” - Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warns the EU not to block coronavirus vaccine exports after European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen suggested they could be halted to countries with higher vaccination rates. “Mid-hearing I saw him stalking me, targeting my headphone cable. Columbo then walked on to the keyboard and on camera. The judge asked if he was my instructing solicitor, to which I said: ‘No, it’s my replacement junior”’ - Naz Hussain QC, a senior criminal defence barrister, reflects on when his cat gate-crashed an Old Bailey virtual hearing.