people who were intent on destroying Corbyn." The Labour Party submitted a formal complaint about the programme to the BBC, which received around 1,600 complaints in total. The BBC's Executive Complaints Unit rejected these complaints. Over 20 complaints of bias were taken to Ofcom, who ruled that the programme had been "duly impartial" and had given appropriate weight to Labour's position. After the episode aired, a party spokesman accused staff featured in the documentary of being "disaffected former officials... who have always opposed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, worked to actively undermine it, and have both personal and political axes to grind." Labour Party staff represented by the GMB Union voted 124–4 to demand the party apologise to the former staff and John Cryer, Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said that attacking former Labour staff who appeared on the documentary was "a gross misjudgment". Five of the staff featured announced their intention to sue the Party, claiming that Labour's response breached its commitment to protect the rights of whistleblowers and 'defamed' them. In July 2020, the Labour Party, now under the leadership of Keir Starmer, retracted in full the allegations it had made about both John Ware and the participants in the Panorama documentary, which it conceded were false, issued a formal apology, and agreed to pay damages and costs, estimated to be around £600,000. Has the government failed the NHS? Broadcast on 27 April 2020, the episode Has the government failed the NHS?, presented by reporter Richard Bilton, investigated the UK Government's alleged failure to stockpile critical equipment such as personal protective equipment (PPE), and the impact this had on the management of COVID-19 within the NHS during the pandemic's early months. The investigation also examined the reversal of the designation of COVID-19 as a "High consequence infectious disease" (HCID) and the simultaneous downgrading of PPE guidance. It was argued that the decision-making was fuelled, in part, by the lack of suitable equipment in the stockpile. Among the interviewees was public health expert John Ashton, who described the findings as "breathtaking" and said "The consequence of not planning; not ordering kit; not having stockpiles is that we are sending into the front line doctors, nurses, other health workers and social care workers without the equipment to keep them safe". The Missing Princess In February 2021, BBC Panorama released a full-fledged investigative documentary, The Missing Princess, about the daughter of Dubai