Shift to a zero-Covid strategy now, Labour's Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon warn
People's Assembly rally hears from MPs, trade unionists and campaigners on the need for a new approach to suppress the virus
LABOUR MPs Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon upped calls for a zero-Covid strategy to beat the pandemic at a People’s Assembly online rally last night.
Ms Abbott slammed Boris Johnson’s government for prioritising private-sector profit over human life with its “sleazy contracts” and “jobs for the boys and girls like [test-and-trace supremo] Dido Harding, who has no public health background whatsoever but happens to be the wife of a Tory MP.”
As for privateers like Serco, Sitel and Deloitte running a “world-beating” test-and-trace system, she asked: “Who ever heard of Serco running a world-beating anything?”
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