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Now, these are figures.

They're numbers, they're percentages, they're difficult to relate to.

But look around you, the number of you who are filling this great hall today is roughly

the same as the number of people who had bleeding disorders who were infected with HIV. Picture that. And now picture only a quarter of you being here.

That was Sir Brian Langstaffed, the retired judge who for the last six years has been investigating

the infected blood scandal in the UK, where people who received blood products in the 70s and 80s received blood products that were

infected by HIV and hepatitis and then went on to develop those conditions themselves.

This inquiry's been running for years,

the scandal's been running for decades,

and this was him delivering his findings

in Westminster on Monday afternoon and he was talking there to the families of the people who were affected by this and just trying to get them and us to realize the scale of the human suffering that had been caused by this.

And then a couple of hours after that, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed the House

of Commons and he said sorry and he painted in quite

dramatic colours just what a bad thing this had been for the country.

This is a day of shame for the British state.

Today's report shows a decades long moral failure at the heart of our national life.

From the National Health Service to the Civil Service, to ministers in successive governments.

At every level, the people and institutions in which we place our trust failed in the most harrowing and devastating way.

And so me and loads of my colleagues have been reading the report today having watched this

story unfold for basically our whole journalistic lives.

So that's what we'll talk about on this episode of Newscast.

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