“If he’s going to call it a stunt he (Mr Johnson) should probably come with me to a food distribution centre to see these families this morning and explain to them what is a lifeline to them is a stunt, because it certainly isn’t from their point of view."
"We are going to start by taking on Rupert Murdoch."
Sir Ed also deemed Gavin Williamson “the worst education secretary we’ve had in living memory” and called on the Government to financially compensate university students for their disrupted education due to Covid-19.
Also Matt Hancock accused of a “blunder” when contracts with private hospitals which would have given the NHS an extra 8,000 beds were cancelled.
Starmer said Johnson has spent the last few years “cosying up to people who don’t have Britain’s interests at heart and courting the idea that he is Britain’s Trump”.
The former Labour leader was suspended from the party for claiming that the scale of anti-Semitism was “dramatically overstated for political reasons”.
"The pattern is depressingly familiar. Bluster. Dither. Fail to lead. Then, far too late, bow to public pressure," Dr Rachel Clarke said.
Researchers have warned that educational inequalities are likely to increase due to school closures.
The prime minister has asked civil servants to scrap references to the EU from tens of thousands of laws in a bid to stop Labour reversing Brexit after the next election.