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Keir Starmer has made an astonishing offer to the incompetent British Prime Minister: he will work with Boris Johnson to beat Covid and save Christmas for the country.
In an exclusive and forceful interview with the Sunday Mirror, the Labor leader said he believes opposition politicians have a duty to come together to rescue Britain because the prime minister is so worthless.
He is furious at Johnson for not being able to hold an emergency COBRA meeting for four months to fix the Covid-19 problem.
He even offered to participate in the meetings himself to help come up with a plan to combat the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
But Keir said: “That is not why I am asking for COBRA to be reconvened.
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“The Prime Ministers of Scotland and Wales and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, should be present when decisions are made.
“The prime minister is not up to the job. What people have seen for weeks and months is a pattern of refusing to acknowledge that there is a problem, then making a U-turn, and finally blaming someone else.
“I appreciate that this is not easy and if it was only a matter of one or two U-turns, that is understandable. But he’s turned 12. That’s serial incompetence.
“We are a constructive opposition and we will support the government when it does things right and challenge it when it is wrong.”
Keir has given Johnson 24 hours to stick his finger out, solve the testing fiasco, and rescue the holiday season after a summer of hesitation.
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The Labor leader said: “You have to act quickly and decisively now to control infections so that Christmas is not missed.
“We were promised to run tests that exceed the world level, but we don’t even have a useful system.
“It is amazing that the government did not anticipate that we would need to increase testing when children go back to school and people go back to work.”
With 75,000 teachers now out and 740 schools closed in whole or in part due to Covid, Keir wants to see children pushed to the front of the exam line alongside key workers.
And it says they should be able to get tests and results within 48 hours.
Keir said: “We have to fix the test system. It was the government that wanted to take back the schools and the people in the offices.
“And his part of the deal was a test and trace system, working. The responsibility for that lies with the PM.”
The Labor leader says the tests should be entrusted to local authorities because they know their communities.
Said, “They were awake for this months ago, but even at the eleventh hour I say find this.”
The UK is now firmly in the grip of a second wave of coronavirus.
Independent SAGE scientists predict that hospitals will fill up next weekend with as many Covid patients as in March.
A week ago, one in 1,400 people was infected, but that has risen to one in 900. And cases are doubling every eight days.
The independent SAGE says lives can be saved by doubling the current goal of 200,000 tests a day.
Keir said: “There will be high temperatures, coughs and sore throats this winter like every winter. That means we need 500,000 tests a day. “
Labor supported the national shutdown and the party will continue to back local restrictions, and even a national curfew.
But Keir is not so fond of people who tell on the neighbors who don’t obey the rule of six of the conservatives.
He insisted: “People don’t want to buy from their neighbors. They just want them to follow the rules. “
The increase in cases in Bolton, Lancs, is attributed to a super spreader that was not quarantined after a
vacationing in Spain and instead went on a pub crawl.
The Labor leader believes that such people should be prosecuted.
And he accepts that if the country is faced with a choice between closing schools or closing bars, children should take priority.
I met Keir in Walsall, West Midlands, shortly before he sat down with local councilors to build confidence in Labor after the party’s beating in elections last year.
Now it’s party conference season so we should have hooked up at a hotel in Liverpool.
But the conference has gone virtual this year. Keir’s leadership acceptance speech was delivered via Zoom. Your keynote speech at the conference will be too.
With bumbling Prime Minister BoJo leading the most mocking government in living memory, Labor should rank high in the polls.
But a YouGov poll for The Times had the party at 40 percent, side by side with conservatives.
Keir said: “We must acknowledge the scale of last year’s defeat and accept the need for change.
“This is a four-year strategy. We must focus on the survey to be conducted in 2024. That is the only survey that matters. “
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