UK was not prepared for 2020 pandemic

At the start of 2020 the UK government had no plans and no preparations for how it would deal with a respiratory epidemic. But this was but one example of a general systematic incompetence.

Just about every part of the system that would be stressed by Covid-19, or needed to deal with Covid-19, was in tatters. But that was not coincidence. It resulted from a general inability to rationally address public needs and spend the needed funds to do it.

Labour won't be able to do better unless it is prepared to spend enough to make the NHS work well and likewise other services needed for dealing with an epidemic. To do that, it needs money to spend. It needs to make the rich pay their fair share in taxes.