DECLASSIFIED UK: Coronavirus exposes who Britain’s national security industry is designed to protect – not the public

The centre’s report listed a litany of problems. The NHS is “already struggling to deliver on the ‘day job’ of routine emergency admissions,” it warned, “so would be exceptionally challenged by a crisis such as a flu pandemic”.

Since 9/11, the British government has increased its annual military spending from £25bn to £40bn. Last year alone, military expenditure rose by £2.2 billion.of £648 billion pounds on the military – almost double Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s £350 billion bailout to keep the economy afloat during the coronavirus crisis.

This focus has meant that robust preparations for an inevitable global pandemic and public health crisis have fallen by the wayside.

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