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Not true, the 'scientists' (SAGE) advised that there would be little benefit to an early travel ban when this first kicked off and suggested a ban would cause supply chain issues (Boris followed that advice). Whereas government critics repeatedly say the government should follow 'expert' advice...

Errr, keep up at the back ...the topic we were discussing was the setting up of a Vaccine task force, suggested by Vallance and Whitty .... would you agree it was set up in a timely fashion and has delivered impressive results saving numerous lives?

Undoubtedly true that we were caught unprepared along with many other countries. Unfortunately, our pre-pandemic contingency planning seemed to be based on a different type of contagion, more 'flu' like. The NSC man in the street may have come up with numerous seemingly common-sense options...

They get slammed for not following expert advice/'the science' but no credit for accepting and acting swiftly on expert advice then. We do vaccines well but the situation we found ourselves in was unprecedented. It's so easy and shows obvious bias to suggest all the right decisions any...

As most of these threads are usually a pile on against the Government it's only one side that ever needs balancing! There's plenty to give HMG a kicking for ... but trying to pretend the UK vaccine success story is nothing to do with HMG is patently absurd.

Who set up the Vaccine task force? Who provided the funding for accelerated research and pre-ordering numerous vaccine types at the earliest opportunity? Who appointed Kate Bingham? Who signs off on their decisions? There wouldn't be much of a rollout success if we didn't have enough vaccines ...