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Labor leader Keir Starmer today seriously broke the spirit of consensus that, in a sense, has so far prevailed over the British government’s crown strategy.
Starmer said in today’s debate with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, that the government’s three-step system of various severe coronary restrictions, which is determined by the extent of the spread of infection in different parts of England, is not enough.
Instead, Starmer and some local politicians are demanding that a so-called “circuit breaker” be introduced, that is, a shutdown of the company for two to three weeks, in order to more effectively curb the increasing spread of infection in England.
Starmer, who previously expressed support for Johnson’s measures, said it had changed since it emerged that the government’s scientific advisory group, SAGE, had already said for three weeks that such a shutdown was necessary.
Johnson defended, however the government’s choice of route, saying that economic concessions must also be made and that the spread of infection actually has large local variations.
Boris Johnson accused Starmer of opportunism and of making party politics a crisis that the government is doing its best to resolve.
But pressure on the government to act even tougher also increased today when the Northern Ireland regional government introduced much tougher crown measures than in England.
Pubs are now in Northern Ireland and restaurants close except for takeout for four weeks and the school fall break keeps getting longer, all to try to reduce infection.
And at the end of the debate between Johnson and Starmer, the Prime Minister finally acknowledged that he does not rule out that even stricter restrictions are needed if events are not reversed.
