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good morning welcome to breakfast with

nagaman chessy and charlie state

our headlines today accused of

repeatedly lying and

incompetence the health secretary will

face questions from mps today

after a fierce personal attack by the

prime minister's former chief

advisor i haven't seen the

this performance today in full and

instead i've been dealing with getting

the vaccination rollout going especially

to over 30s and

and saving lives an extraordinary

appearance before mps dominic cummings

said

tens of thousands of people died

unnecessarily during the pandemic

he believed boris johnson was unfit to

be prime minister

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tsunami of patients as lockdown eases

and could struggle to meet demand good

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good morning it's thursday the 27th of

may the health secretary matt hancock

is going to address mps in parliament

this morning following explosive

allegations made against him

by the prime minister's former chief

advisor dominic cummings was giving

evidence to mps

when he claimed mr hancock repeatedly

lied to colleagues

and the public during the coronavirus

pandemic and

should have been sacked it was also

alleged that he had wrongly assured the

prime minister that people in hospital

would be tested for covet

before being sent back into care homes

the health secretary's team has

dismissed the claims here's more from

our political correspondent damian

gramaticus

the health secretary today he's facing

uncomfortable scrutiny

difficult questions demanding answers

i think that the secretary of state for

health should have been fired

for at least 15 20 things including

lying to everybody

in multiple occasions in meeting after

meeting in the in the cabinet room and

publicly

one claim from dominic cummings was that

matt hancock misled him

by saying people would be tested for

covid before being moved from hospitals

to care homes

the government rhetoric was we put a

shield around care homes and blah blah

it was complete nonsense quite the

opposite of putting a shield around them

we sent people with covered back to the

care homes

he claimed matt hancock misled again

saying after the first wave that

everyone who had needed treatment for

covid received it

he knew that that was a lie because he'd

been briefed by the chief scientific

advisor and the chief medical officer

himself about the first peak

and we were told explicitly people did

not get the treatment that they deserved

many people were left to die in horrific

circumstances

uh mr speaker the mr cummings said the

prime minister too was in his opinion

unfit for the job claiming the

government failed people

and tens of thousands died who didn't

need to die

to deal with a pandemic on this scale

has been appallingly difficult and we've

at every stage

uh tried to minimize loss of life to

save lives to protect the nhs

and we've followed the best scientific

advice that we that we can mr speaker

among mr cummings's other charges were

that when hospitals were running out of

protective equipment

the health secretary tried to blame the

chancellor and the nhs's top boss

and he also claimed setting up a covid

testing system

had been complicated when matt hancock

set a target of a hundred thousand tests

a day

something he described as disgraceful

behavior that caused

serious harm matt hancock must come to

the house of commons

and explain what he did to protect care

homes because so many people did die

in care homes what he did to get the ppe

to the front line

was what he did on testing and tracing

because it didn't work still doesn't

work

to this day the health secretary's team

last night dismissed the claims

saying he'd been working incredibly hard

in unprecedented circumstances

throughout the pandemic well i haven't

seen the

uh this performance today in full

and instead i've been dealing with

getting the vaccination rollout going

especially to over 30s and

and saving lives i'll be giving a

statement in

the house of commons tomorrow and i'll

have more to say that

but dominic cummings too may have more

to say he shows no sign of letting up

his criticisms

damien gramaticus bbc news well let's

get more now

on that story from our chief political

correspondent adam fleming morning to

you adam so the health secretary you saw

there

um a brief moment with him saying he'll

have more to say

and he was saying that this morning yeah

we'll hear a lot more from matt hancock

at 10

30 in the house of commons today when

he'll make a statement and answer

questions from mps

although it'll be nowhere as long as the

seven hours of evidence that dominic

cummings gave yesterday and it probably

won't be as forensic or

nearly as detailed certainly in his

response

i think the criticisms leveled at matt

hancock from dominant comings that

people will find the most upsetting

though

are that one that he said that people

would be tested

when they left hospitals to go to care

homes

for kovid when they weren't and also

that allegation that people did not

receive

high quality care at the height of the

crisis

now it wasn't just matt hancock that

dominic cummings was criticizing at

length yesterday

he also really went for the prime

minister saying that he was

indecisive at key points that he hadn't

understood the seriousness of the

pandemic

when it first hit and that was because

boris johnson in dominic cummings view

is unfit to be prime minister and

basically just creates

chaos wherever he goes and also dominic

cummings posed some very big questions

just about the whole system

of government in the uk why did

the government and the civil service and

the scientists

not have a plan for a pandemic like this

why did they not have the structures in

place to deliver things

like testing and also the shielding

program

and so those are questions that are

going to be asked by lots of people

to lots of people for months and maybe

years to come

i think dominic cummings's appearance

yesterday was just the start of this

huge big national inquest that we're

going to have into this

which will eventually accommodate in an

official public inquiry

adam thank you france has become the

latest european country to introduce

restrictions on uk travelers because of

the spread of the

india coronavirus variant from sunday

all passengers arriving in france from

the uk must quarantine for seven days

last week germany imposed a two-week

quarantine on uk arrivals

while austria has banned new direct uk

flights from the 1st

of june footballer marcus rashford

says he's been sent dozens of racist

messages following manchester united's

defeat in the europa league final last

night

striker said he'd received at least 70

racial slurs on social media in the wake

of united penalties

shootout lost to villarreal at the end

of last month

english football boycotted social media

to protest against

abuse online police say that they've

rescued more than 570 children during a

week of operations against county lines

drugs gangs across

england wales and scotland they also

made over a thousand

arrests county line gangs or urban drug

dealers

who sell customers in more rural areas

via dedicated

phone lines angus crawford has this

report

polly the sniffer dog is busy looking

for drugs

oh should we go there is that a couple

of grams and the young people

used to move them around the uk

police forces across the country even

here on the railways

are targeting county lines they're

looking for drugs

weapons money but what they really want

to find

are the children being exploited by

these criminal gangs

how old are you in a week of action

across england wales and scotland

police say they safeguarded more than

570 children involved

we know that young people are involved

in this but we haven't criminalized many

of those

we don't seek to criminalize young

people what we do is we

criminalize young people as a last

resort because we see them as victims so

i was about 10

11 in youth court like rhys selling

drugs when he should have been in

primary school

i then started getting into trouble now

a youth worker

helping children take a different path

so when they've got you in there you

know it can be simple things

threats of violence you know um

threatening your family members your

siblings uh

you're trapped in in that stage you know

there's no way once you

once you're in there you're you're in it

really and that's why we try to get to

these young people before they're in it

how old are you boys two teenagers

stopped in northampton

with drugs and a knife you're not

missing are you later

one was found to be bruised and scolded

you're both going to be detained for

stop searching

around his neck hand marks around his

throat and he'd also have welts on his

back

from whatever other gang member

he was aligned to up in birmingham

so they've been punishing him

forcing him to work i believe so there

are fears too the pandemic has made

things worse

more children missing school making them

even more vulnerable

and so the work goes on

searching for the dealers and the

children they prey on

angus crawford bbc news

eric carl the author of one of the best

love children's books the very hungry

caterpillar has died

age 91. now the book was first published

in 1969 and was one of the all-time

best-selling publications for young

children

and sold more than 50 million copies it

became the writer's most famous piece of

work

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