‘We’ve got to give these people justice’: infected blood report could lead to prosecutions, minister says

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Rishi Sunak expected to offer apology on behalf of state after inquiry delivers final report

Good morning. We have not been short of news recently about scandals involving grotesque failings by state organisations, and decades-long attempts to cover them up, and today we are going to get the final report from the inquiry into one of the worst of them all, the process that saw more than 30,000 NHS patients being infected with HIV or hepatitis C because they were treated with contaminated blood imported from the US.

Here is our preview story by Rachel Hall, Matthew Weaver and Peter Walker about what to expect. And here is an explainer from Haroon Siddique with background about the scandal. A lot of the coverage this morning is focusing on the apology that Rishi Sunak is expected to deliver later.

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