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report does not name names science was wrong as well. tte: report does not name names but science was wrong as well. t te: report does not name names but it talks about a mindset and within thatis talks about a mindset and within that is the scientific and medical advisors that are part of the government are notjust advisors that are part of the government are not just the advisors that are part of the government are notjust the senior ministers, and if you look back to the start of the pandemic, ministers are saying it is all well and good at saying this with the benefit of hindsight but there were scientific voices very early in march last year who said we need to lock down and we need to go much further, and ultimately they had to heed that. the report points out other countries did things differently, may be doing things better, certainly in the first half of the pandemic, asjeremy hunt said, and it references taiwan and south korea for their efforts in getting a functioning test
the lack of a functioning test and traced programme, the problems with racial disparities, the regional tier system, there is a lot of detail in there. as we move into the second half of the pandemic, it becomes much more about praising the government for the vaccine roll out and the fact that earlier in the pandemic we bought up a lot of supplies of vaccine to put us in a better position than other countries later on. overall it does raise some pretty profound questions for the government. but in terms of the full public inquiry, that does not get under way until spring of next year, no sign from the government they will bring that forward. we are still waiting for details about what powers the inquiry will have, for example, and then how long it potentially might go on for because it might not report back and this is important politically, until after the next general election. peter, thanks forjoining the next general election. peter,
good. it is important that we don t just have international inspectors. we have western, american, british that go there and verify that whatever deal is potentially created that they are verifying and there are folks seeing that. recently he talked about shutting down the one nuclear test site. that is a great symbolic step towards potential peace and denuclearization. it is not really a functioning test. it is important we have our own inspectors. does it shed light on the fact that you need to be careful about the politics around the iran deal? i get what the president said during the campaign and why it was a buzz word for him. now that you are seeing the situation with north korea shape up, they really seem to be approaching it with some type of potential outcome that would look like the iran nuclear deal. do you think it would change the politics around the iran deal for the admistration? possibly. that is a good point.