Jeremy Hunt is expected to unveil a £10 billion compensation package for victims of the infected blood scandal.
The chancellor said he was fulfilling a promise he made to a constituent in 2014 just months before he died of hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products.
Tens of thousands of people were infected with contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.
The scandal – dubbed the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS – has been the subject of the biggest ever public inquiry in the UK.
The compensation here seems like unequivocably good news for the families involved. At the same time, I think other campaign groups need to stop drawing an equivalence between this horrifying abuse at the hands of the state and their own cause: specifically the WASPI women campaign groups are in danger of trivialising the blood victims by claiming that they experienced a similar level of mistreatment by the state.
