Gillian Keegan MP for Chichester appeared on Sky News this morning; here she discussed the UK’s Test and Trace system and blamed its ineffectiveness on the public’s lack of compliance.
It’s worth noting here that she appears to rifle through a script in providing an answer. Mm.
The Huffington Post revealed several days ago that Deloitte are being paid [using public money] to write scripts for them.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/…/test-and-trace…
An excerpt from the article:
“Private firm Deloitte is receiving taxpayer’s cash to help ministers to draft parliamentary answers and media “lines to take” to defend the Test and Trace programme, HuffPost UK can reveal.
The unprecedented role for the consultancy giant is part of a series of contracts worth £323m to “support” the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the National Testing Programme run by Baroness Dido Harding’s service.
Four different contracts show that Test and Trace has been using Deloitte for “general management consultancy services” ranging from building testing capacity to stockpiling and logistics oversight.
But buried within the contracts are details of help provided with PR and communications, with a requirement to “draft and respond to parliamentary questions, Freedom of Information requests, media queries and other reactive requests” and to “support lines to take and Q&A’s in anticipation of queries.”
80-seat majority elected by Conservative voters and they’re relying on companies to provide them with the scripts to read because the ministers [including, clearly, Gillian Keegan] can’t do it for themselves.
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