‘We did everything we could’: Really, prime minister?
The UK has passed 100,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths. Did it have to be this way?
The UK has passed 100,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths. Did it have to be this way?
“What I can tell you is that we truly did everything we could, and continue to do everything that we can," he said.
Caroline Lucas accused the government of being "perfectly happy" for the price of the pandemic to be paid for by "some of the poorest people who are least able to do so".
“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”.
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