Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a heated Prime Minister’s Questions with Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer, as the opposition leader probed him on coronavirus testing in care homes.
Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson said that the expanded team of call centre workers and tracers would be ready by June 1 and would able to handle 10,000 new Covid-19 cases a day.
he announcement came after Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the decision to abandon the original contact tracing scheme nearly 10 weeks ago had left a “huge hole in our defences”.
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the announcement that Parliament is going to be recalled as he said opposition parties need to be able to scrutinise the government.
“We need to know what the exit strategy is,” he said, calling on the Tories to publish their plans for ending the #coronavirus lockdown and developing a vaccine.
He said it was be “smart” of the government to acknowledge its provision of PPE is not “where it should be”.
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