LABOUR demanded today that the government stop making promises it can’t keep on Covid-19, as more issues came to light over Britain’s lack of testing capacity.

During Prime Minister’s Questions, PM Boris Johnson defended his troubled Covid-19 testing system amid mounting fears of a second wave of coronavirus in care homes this winter.

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner told him “we don’t have weeks” to sort problems with the testing system, which has seen shortfalls across at least 10 Covid-19 hotspots.