Coronavirus: UK's pandemic planning an 'astonishing' failure, say MPs   The government's failure to plan for the economic impact of a pandemic is "astonishing", a committee of MPs says.   The Commons Public Accounts Committee said the economic reaction to Covid-19 had been rushed and the impact could be "long-term". It added the Treasury had waited until mid-March before deciding on economic support schemes to put in place. But the government said it regularly