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‘40-day delay cost the lives of thousands’
Labour joins experts in laying bare the human costs of the Tories' inaction
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaving 10 Downing Street
LIVES could have been saved if the government had acted earlier to impose a national coronavirus lockdown in England, Sir Keir Starmer said today.
The Labour leader took Prime Minister Boris Johnson to task in the Commons over his 40-day delay to implement a “circuit-breaker” that the government’s own Sage scientists recommended in September.
Sir Keir pointed out that on September 21, when the scientists recommended an urgent two- to three-week lockdown, there were 11 deaths from Covid-19 and just over 4,000 new infections.
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