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They paid and didn’t use them because mostly the doctors in private hospitals are the same consultants that work in the NHS. They do the private work in their spare time. Sure, you can try to point the finger at the NHS if you like and say it was them wasting resources. But that’s what happens...

Did they? Or did they agree to pay the private companies £400m every month so they could use the hospitals - which then largely sat idle? Not really my idea of requisitioning which would be more like, 'it's a national emergency, we trained all your staff, you can f*** your profits because we're...

Bed showrooms. A stunt to make it look like they were doing something. They couldn't staff them anyway as, funnily enough, the hospitals needed all the doctors and nurses they could get. Maybe if they'd requisitioned private hospitals rather than handing them fortunes for doing f*** all, it...

If only the virus had already been sweeping across Europe before it hit the UK, killing people in their thousands, particularly in care homes. I mean, how was Matt Hancock supposed to cope? It's not like he could read about, hear about or see people dying for weeks before it really took hold...