LABOUR urged the government today to impose a temporary national coronavirus lockdown, warning that more jobs will be put at risk if ministers wait for a U-turn.

During a fiery Prime Minister’s Questions, PM Boris Johnson was grilled by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on why he had rejected experts’ advice to introduce a so-called circuit-breaker lockdown of two to three weeks.

Sir Keir echoed the view of the Sage committee of scientists, saying that “tougher measures are now unavoidable.”