We learned two important things today at the Covid Inquiry . The NHS came close to collapse – and we were never all in this together. While ‘superhuman’ hospital staff held our NHS together by sheer will and skill, the Tory Austerity government presided over a historically underfunded health system on the brink of going under. While friends of some Conservative ministers won the lottery on PPE contracts , the NHS was just days away from running out of key items, such as masks, gloves and gowns.

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