LONDON - Britain’s stand-in leader resisted pressure on Sunday to explain how the government plans to ease a coronavirus lockdown that has been in place for a month, warning that hasty action could result in a second peak of infections.
Appearing on political TV shows in his last day at the helm, Raab said the government was working privately on how to move out of the lockdown, but that speculating in public might dilute the current guidance to stay at home. The official number of deaths related to COVID-19 in hospitals across the United Kingdom rose above 20,000 on Saturday, with the overall figure likely to be significantly higher once deaths in care homes and hospices are tallied.
Pressed on this in a BBC interview, Raab would say only that there would not be a “binary easing of measures” but rather a gradual progression to a “new normal”.Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer argued in an open letter to Johnson that the British government was falling behind the rest of the world by refusing to say more.
“We need to see a significant step-change in the government’s response to this pandemic. Decisions need to be taken quicker and communication with the public needs to be clearer,” he said. On PPE, he said: “We’re doing everything we can in an international supply shortage to get them the PPE, the equipment that they need, but it hasn’t been easy, we hold our hands up. It hasn’t been easy for any country.”
Of course, they can’t even get Brexit right!
England, not Scotland 🏴 We don’t listen to Westminster. We, as a completely separate nation with completely different cultures & intelligence, have handled the outbreak very diligently & with the respect needed, and will continue to without the incompetency of effete arseholes.
a reckon they have a plan and they are refining it
Oh come on, those laggards! Spain is pioneer in the no lockdown exit strategy strategy
No exit for this virus, maybe people have to learn to covid-ist with it until a vaccine is made.
Their PM is as productive, functional, and sane as our president so.... we feel their pain.
Keep feeding the sheep...
The Conservatives like 5-point plans, so here's one to use to plan a comeback from the lockdown:
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