DAILY MAIL
Rishi Sunak pledged last night to pay ‘whatever it costs’ to compensate the victims of the infected blood scandal.
Thousands of people affected by it will be offered interim payments today, as ministers set out the first details of a compensation package expected to top £10billion.
In a sombre statement to the Commons, the Prime Minister issued a ‘wholehearted and unequivocal’ apology.
Sir Brian Langstaff’s report had uncovered ‘a decades-long moral failure at the heart of our national life’ that should ‘shake our nation to its core’, he said.
‘From the National Health Service to the civil service, to ministers in successive governments at every level, the people and institutions in which we place our trust failed in the most harrowing and devastating way,’ he added.
‘They failed the victims and their families – and they failed this country.’
Mr Sunak was criticised by Sir Brian yesterday for responding to calls for compensation at a ‘sluggish pace’ and with a lack of transparency.
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