A fiasco-hit coronavirus supplies flight delivered just a few hours of gowns to the NHS, it is claimed today. Ministers face fresh questions over an RAF plane which finally touched down yesterday after days of headlines.
Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick first claimed on Saturday that a "very large consignment" of protective kit including 400,000 gowns would arrive the next day.
Yet it was repeatedly delayed and eventually arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 3.30am on Wednesday. Downing Street today refused to say if it contained the full shipment of protective kit.
No10 also refused to comment on claims the Turkish government had to step in and provide the kit, because the original private order fell through.