Keir Starmer: Johnson is asking public to pay for his incompetence – video

The Labour leader labels the decision on Saturday 19 December to cancel the planned Christmas relaxation of Covid restrictions an 'act of gross negligence by a prime minister who once again has been caught behind the curve'. Boris Johnson announced swaths of the south-east of England would be put in a new tier 4 to contain a new strain of the virus just days after he insisted Christmas plans could go ahead. 'We have a prime minister who is so scared of being unpopular that he is incapable of making tough decisions until it is too late,' Starmer says. * Coronavirus live updates * England's new Covid restrictions likely to stay 'for months' until vaccine rollout * Police will stop people fleeing new Covid tier 4 areas, ministers say Continue reading...
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