also in this programme, the long wait for dental appointments and should we all have lessons in pavement courtesy? but first, covid has killed almost 128,000 people in the uk. tens of thousands of them needlessly. many in care homes. that's according to the prime minister's closest adviser during the early months of the pandemic. in explosive evidence to mps, dominic cummings painted a picture of a chaotic government that failed to take the virus seriously, a government led by someone who was unfit to be prime minister with a health secretary who should have been sacked for repeatedly lying. he spent seven hours facing questions from the health and the science and technology committees. and he began with an apology. the truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this. when the public needed us most, the government failed.