'I am truly sorry': Sunak apologises for infected blood scandal and its 'chilling' cover-up

Apology from an unelected stinking rich wrecker of our country ? meaningless.

Takes 30 years for a decision and an apology..and we claim we are a leading country

What value is an apology from a professional liar.

As prime minister i apologise for letting England disappear

There is no way anyone can truly apologize for something SO horrific as the pain of that little 10yr old boy. How can anyone apologize to him?

Not even a single person has been held accountable or prosecuted

Look how long they had to wait for that apology, A lot of them have already died.

The parents of that 10year old....breaks my heart.

The same thing will happen in the future about covid.

Every day should be a day of shame for Rishi Sunak

Apology NOT ACCEPTED! Resign now! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Every day is a day of shame for these corrupt treasonous politicians.

Can I just insert some sanity here. In 1982 there was no internet, no mobile phones, no cable TV. Just 4 channels on TV in 1983! Michael Jackson's - Beat It, was in the charts. Newspapers were the main distributors of (biased) information. It was a different world that I lived through, compared to now. Context is very important as always. You can look at almost anything from 40 years ago and reveal dangers from old practices. The number of people dying from unsafe work practices was much larger than this issue. Namby pamby, some would say, Health & Safety legislation has improved that over the decades. Thankfully. Hemophiliacs were dying prematurely from strokes and other bleeds. Factor VIII had been shown to be effective in treating this in the '70's. It could only be made from thousands of blood donations as it makes up a small part of the blood serum. The calculated risk, mid 1970's was to use it to treat haemophiliacs. At the same time Hepatitis A and B had only just been isolated as a virus behind some liver diseases. Hepatitis C was unknown until 1989! HAV cures itself after a few months. HBV acute phase seems to go away after a few months but it can become chronic and after 20 years cause cirrhosis of the liver, as it turns out. AIDS was first detected in 1981 as an unknown disease that caused immune deficiency, leading to pneumonia and death eventually. Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is the extended name, revealing its unknown cause. Homosexual men and some haemophiliacs seemef to be dying young of some bodily fluid borne disease. In the UK the first person known to die of AIDS was recorded, in the 12th December 1981 paper published in The Lancet journal. Terry Higgins the died in July '82 of AIDS. As it has a (years) long incubation period it is very hard to find the cause. In 1983 researchers had discovered a retrovirus responsible for AIDS, they called it HIV. By 1984 it was accepted as fact. 1985 saw 58 people as having died from AIDS. Still quite small numbers. The BBC produced a Horizon episode in 1986 about, "AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus", looking into the research of AZT in tackling HIV infections. Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, shook the hand of a dying AIDS patient to prove you cannot get it just by touch in 1987. Much fearmongering and ignorance was rife, even this late. The usual suspects of politically right wing newspapers, Sun, Telegraph, Mail, Express and News of the World had spent years, since 1983, reporting on the debauchery of gays and the deserved plague brought down upon them, most of the public agreed. Pathetic journalism. Finally, in 1987 it was clear that HIV was also a straight plague! Women were catching it. The government now commisioned a famous TV commercial and a leaflet campaign to every household called: AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance. It was dramatic and fear inducing, but woke everyone up to the reality of HIV. Now everyone knew about HIV and AIDS. I remember it well, whilst I watched "The Tube" on Channel 4 with Jools Holland & Co. So you see, this is the context into which this report discusses the errors made in the first few years of the 1980's. Almost nothing was known for certain and much like some treatments today, the risk is deemed better than the disease. Sometimes in error due to lack of knowledge, never ill intent or even negligence. Not that it hasn't been tragic for haemophiliacs but the much larger tragedy of AIDS, HIV and general hepatitis were the priority. Bourne out by the worldwide figures of 40 million people that have since died from AIDS and 40 million more that are living with HIV right now. Dwarfing all other problems. Such is life, I wish people would stop expecting certainty and absolutes, then legal comeback for the randomness of life. Life has never been better, in all of history, than it is right now. I bet it doesn't look so good through the viewpoint of someone in the 2060's when I will be 100! Did you make it this far? See how much harder it is to respond to ignorance, reactionary comment and bias. Then nobody reads it because they don't really want informed, they want their prejudices verified and supported. THE END

And to think people are lining up for boosters from these criminals, you cant make it up.

That little boy Lee's voice,pierced my heart 😢

What about the jabs, etc. From recently I feel for all the people that has had both of these issues

Just goes to show really. Conspiracies do exist. If they were lying about this, who knows what else they might be hiding?

There must be so many angry families out there - so sorry.

What about people injured by AstraZeneca Jabs?. My two Jabs med History was not even recorded.

Windrush..Post office..'infected blood'...how many more and what of 'compensation'....mmmm...