It's an important point, because folks have to understand fundamentally the role of government. When a government is elected and you get the honour of being a minister, you do not have the opportunity to dictate the terms of a contract. That would be entirely inappropriate.
You would approve a contract, but saying that you would get into the details of a contract and order a department how to do a contract and put your hand into the writing of the contract would be wholly inappropriate. I think it is very concerning to hear the Conservatives say that they would not have signed advance purchase agreements, and they would not have made the investments in those different options. I don't hear them saying they would have picked one winner. What I'm hearing is that they wouldn't have entered into any kind of agreement. They wouldn't have listened to experts around what terms needed to be entered into in order to get those advance purchase agreements.
What we're hearing very clearly from the Conservatives is that if—and thank goodness it didn't occur—they had been in power, they wouldn't have signed advance purchase agreements. That means this country wouldn't have vaccines, which means we would have had a disastrous public health outcome. Thank goodness that didn't happen.