LABOUR took the government to task today over coronavirus hotspots in Britain being left with no available testing capacity.

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, during an urgent question in the Commons, asked why there were no tests available in 10 hotspots including Rochdale, Pendle and Bradford.

He said that last weekend in Bolton, which has the highest infection rate in Britain, a mobile testing centre failed to turn up, meanwhile hundreds of people in Bury queued for five hours for a test.