Coronavirus new: Starmer blames government ‘failures’ for new restrictions as UK sees 6,000 new cases
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Your support makes all the difference.Keir Starmer has laid the blame for “necessary” new coronavirus restrictions at Boris Johnson’s feet, repeating that the resurgence of the virus is “not an act of God [but] a failure of government”.
It came after Dominic Raab has warned a second national lockdown “can't be ruled out” if the latest restrictions do not manage to control a surge in cases.
Meanwhile, Professor Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London, has said a ban on households mixing in England could be coming “very soon” and waiting just two or three weeks to implement such a measure would be too late.
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