A shipment of personal protective equipment from Turkey failed to arrive today as doctors demanded ministers be held to account for their “disgraceful” failure to safeguard NHS staff.
The delivery of 84 tonnes of PPE, including 400,000 gowns, was promised within 24 hours on Saturday by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick at the daily press briefing.
But it never arrived and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday said the RAF was on standby to bring it from Turkey.
At the No10 briefing, he said: “We hope to see that coming into the country tomorrow.” As Boris Johnson faced fury over his shambolic handling of the crisis and his failure to attend five Cobra meetings, doctors spoke of their dismay at the failure of the PPE shipment to