Welcome to FTE politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne.

In this episode, we'll be chewing through the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis.

Boris Johnson's government struggled this week yet again on testing and Matt Hancock

eventually had to make a new pledge of 100,000 tests a week by the end of April.

It also came under five assorted of ventilators and PPE equipment, which is soon

Aq was forced to make some amendments to his economic packages to help smaller

businesses who are being left out and inside government tensions rose as the

blame game began over the crisis and who is to blame for the lack of testing and of

course less we forget the Labour leadership Contest is almost over too.

I'm delighted to be joined remotely of course by our political editor George Parker, Chief

Political Correspondent Jim Picard and Political Correspondent Laura Hughes.

Thank you all for joining.

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And thank you for sticking with us throughout the coronavirus crisis.

We hope the quality is listenable.

So let's begin with testing, which has been the issue that has dominated both politically and health

wise in Westminster this week.

The UK government has consistently failed to meet its own thresholds for testing

NHS workers to see if they do or don't have coronavirus.

The government has failed to give an adequate explanation of why it isn't able to meet

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