BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... January 22, 2022 20:45:00
I had a call with the council, they doubled mortuary capacity and double that again. and then we were on the call once again talking about doubling mortuary capacity once more. we expected to run out of crematorium capacity. muslims in my constituency were worried about being cremated, not buried, but of course, the reverse was that people wanted to be cremated and might have had to be buried just because we had too many bodies to deal with. that was the kind of atmosphere we faced them. and i considered it my duty to take that moderate and supportive tone. but you went on to talk about panic ...