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Part of Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:02 am on 11 November 2020.

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Photo of Boris Johnson Boris Johnson Leader of the Conservative Party, The Prime Minister 11:02, 11 November 2020

We are in the middle of a global pandemic in which this Government have so far secured and delivered 32 billion items of personal protective equipment; and, yes, it is absolutely correct that it has been necessary to work with the private sector and with manufacturers who provide such equipment, some of them more effectively than others, but it is the private sector that in the end makes the PPE, it is the private sector that provides the testing equipment, and it is the private sector that, no matter how much the Labour party may hate it, provides the vaccines and the scientific breakthroughs.