this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 8pm... a damning report from mps who call the government's early handling of the pandemic one of the worst public health failures in uk history, costing thousands of lives. early decisions, in particular our slowness to lockdown, did have consequences, and we've got to confront the need to learn lessons from this. the report criticised the chaotic system of test and trace and moving infected patients into care homes. families of the victims say people died unnecessarily. i think she lost her life because mistakes were made by the government. and i want to know about that, i want to hear about it in a fulljudicial inquiry.