The Guardian view on care homes: take responsibility and apologise | Editorial

Hospitals were ordered to send patients to care homes without routine testing during the pandemic. Boris Johnson needs to say sorry for this deadly failure to protect the elderly.“We need to do better. Because we are failing our parents, our grandparents, our elders – the greatest generation who built this country. We need to care for them properly.” These are welcome words from a prime minister prepared to accept responsibility for the tsunami of deaths in care homes. Unfortun