Jonathan Ashworth, the UK Labour Party’s shadow health secretary, challenges Matt Hancock on the testing crisis.
He says it’s a case “not so much of test and trace – more like trace a test”, referring to the problems some people have had in accessing a Covid-19 test.
He asks Mr Hancock if there will be more testing capacity available in areas where there are tightened restrictions, like in the North East, as just announced.
Mr Ashworth says the NHS is at the cusp of a second spike – and that instead of fixing the issue of testing, the government was instead restricting access.
It is “urgent” the government “fixes testing, fixes tracing” or we face a “very bleak winter indeed”, he adds