Blood inquiry: Former cabinet minister says Aids advice was “regrettable”
Infected blood scandal survivors have accused ministers of misleading the public in 1983. …
Lord Fowler told the inquiry: “By the time I got there in September 1981, it was too late for me to influence the outcome… [If] we’d gone for self-sufficiency as a nation, then much of the ensuing tragedy, probably not all of it but much of it, could have been avoided.”