The Epoch Times Article Rating

UK Taxpayers to Face COVID Bill for Decades to Come, MPs Warn

Jul 25, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    28% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -67% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The PAC said that as of May this year, out of 32 billion items of PPE ordered by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), some 11 billion had been distributed, while 12.6 billion are stored in the UK as central stock.
57% : A DHSC spokeswoman responded: "There are robust processes in place to ensure that government spending always provides value for money for the taxpayer.
42% : Two reports from the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) released on Sunday slammed the Government's spending on unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) and said a public inquiry expected next year was not soon enough to fix some issues.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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