Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210421:09:23:00
The government told us, at the height of the pandemic, there were genuine fears that we would quickly run out of ventilators, leaving the nhs unable to treat patients and putting many lives at risk. as the public would expect, we did everything we could in extraordinary times. in the end, as he explained to the bbc recently, dyson's offer wasn't taken up. we did it. we got it working between four and six weeks in spite of changing the specification. we were ready to go, ready to produce it, we'd bought the components, and then the cabinet office said they didn't want it, they didn't need it. a...