Coronavirus: Gordon Brown says the UK government is ‘failing to test people’

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has criticised the UK and Scottish government for failing to ramp up testing.

He said: “If you don’t test people until after you’ve got a case, you’re simply trying to solve a problem after it’s been created.”

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Gordon Brown is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007.

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