Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned the UK is heading for one of the worst Covid-19 death tolls in Europe, as he complained that the government has consistently been too slow in taking the appropriate actions to limit the impact of the crisis.
An inquiry into the government’s handling of coronavirus is “inevitable at the end of all this” he claimed, but said the “focus should not be on” any future probe currently, but on the next steps in the crisis.
In an interview with ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston, the Labour leader criticised the government for being “slow into lockdown, slow on testing, slow on protective equipment”.
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