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Cabinet of Horrors

Oh God, What Now?

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SARS Pandemic - What Was the Legal Foundation?

The Public Health Act 1984 was upgraded and supercharged in 2008 after the SARS pandemic. The World Health Organization basically said to member states, you need to get ready for a big pandemic. And one of the things that we did was we brought in this change to the Public Health Act which gave ministers unlimited powers with pretty much no parliamentary scrutiny. It was passed just by the minister signing the bottom of the piece of paper.

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