No one in the UK seems to be tying this attack to the Conservative Party's desire for backdoors everywhere, which is a shame because it's a nice example for the public of how the government have got this very wrong.
I would rather see it used to leverage an opinion against back doors and surveillance culture but alas this is merely administrative incompetence and failure to either upgrade or airgap systems which have had a clock ticking on them and plenty of notice from the vendor to sort. The buck should stop at the trust IT directors as this was entirely avoidable with a properly managed estate.