Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the Commons, has criticised complaints about the unavailability of coronavirus tests. In response to a question from Labour's Valerie Vaz, Rees–Mogg said: 'We should actually celebrate the phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests of a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year' 

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