The clock is ticking for the victims of the contaminated blood scandal. They are still dying at the rate of one every four days as the government continues to prevaricate over the establishment of a compensation scheme.

Even now as they await the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry, which has just been delayed again until March next year, they fear that justice could still slip between their fingers.

Why? The reason was summed up succinctly by Jeremy Hunt when, as a backbench MP, he gave evidence to the public inquiry in July 2022 and said that the state can sometimes “close ranks around a lie”.

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