MPs vote overwhelmingly to extend emergency Covid powers for six more months
Prime Minister Boris Johnson responds to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons
MPs HAVE overwhelmingly voted to extend the government’s emergency Covid powers for another six months, despite fears that the Coronavirus Act “continually failed” the public.
The Act was voted through on March 24 2020 under little scrutiny, handing Boris Johnson’s government a wide variety of powers to slow the spread of the virus.
Today’s motion passed with 484 votes in favour versus 76 against.
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