The Right Honourable The Lord Ross of Marnock MBE PC Secretary of State for Scotland in the Labour Government of 1974 to 1979. By Professor John Robertson In the Guardian today: A commercial blood product at the centre of the biggest treatment scandal in the history of the NHS was approved for use after government officials were told convicts were among the paid donors and virus contamination “should be assumed”, corporate filings reveal. The product, given to ­haemophiliacs to enable their blood to clot, was injected into thousands of patients in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s, ­including young children, who were infected … Continue reading A Labour government in 1976 approved the dirty blood from US prisons that killed around 300 Scots and this man couldn’t stop it or did what he was told – want more of this treatment?