23 May 2024

UK: Rishi Sunak sets election date, blood scandal inquiry

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 23 May 2024
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London Wednesday, May 22, 2024, as he announces that he is to call a General Election for July 4. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London on 22 May 2024, as he announces a General Election for 4 July. Photo: AP / Kin Cheung

UK correspondent Dan Bloom joins Kathryn to look at reaction to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's rain-drenched announcement that the country would go to the polls on July 4. Is it a gamble?

The inquiry into the UK's tainted blood scandal has found British authorities and the public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products.

And the former Post Office head Paula Vennells has broken down in tears as she appeared before a public inquiry into the treatment of sub-postmasters.