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England’s new one-month closure has been confirmed, and MPs officially approved the new closure.
In a House of Commons vote on Wednesday, MPs supported the new coronavirus measured by 516 to 38, a majority of 478.
It means that from one minute after midnight, non-essential pubs, bars, restaurants and shops will close across England and remain closed until December 2.
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People will also be told to stay home, except when attending school, college, work, or shopping for food.
A total of 34 Conservative MPs rebelled against the lockdown, including former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the powerful 1922 Committee of Conservative Supporters.
Another 21 Conservative MPs had no registered vote, including the former prime minister Teresa May – despite having intervened in the debate prior to the vote.
During the debate, Johnson told deputies that he hoped the businesses could reopen again in the run-up to Christmas.
But he warned that without acting now, the country could suffer deaths “on a serious scale”, with hospitals in “extraordinary trouble” next month.
Moments before the result of the Commons vote came in, it was announced another 25,177 people had tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK and 492 others had died after contracting the virus.
The prime minister saw the closure approved with Labor support. However, he witnessed a series of disgruntled Conservative MPs who used the Commons debate to criticize his strategy on the coronavirus.
Sir Graham told MPs that he would vote against the shutdown “with greater conviction” than any other vote he had cast in his 23 years in the Commons.
“What worries me most is that the government is going too far in the private and family life of our voters,” he said.
“I think there is an arrogance, perhaps involuntary, in assuming that the government has the right to do so.”
Sir Iain said he would not support the closure and told MPs that it was “not necessary now.”
He also attacked the “gruesome” leak of the government shutdown plan to the media, prior to its announcement.
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Sir Charles Walker told MPs that he believed the legislation was “terribly unfair” and “cruel” in some parts.
“I will not participate in the criminalization of parents who see their children, and children for seeing their parents,” he said.
Mark Harper said he did not believe ministers had adequately defended the lockdown and criticized “various flaws” in the government’s COVID data.
And Philip Davies said both he and the public “no longer have faith” in the government’s strategy.
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Meanwhile, the prime minister sent a note of apology to his predecessor after he left the Commons during May’s contribution to the debate.
The former prime minister had expressed concern about the lack of data on the impact of the government’s COVID decisions on the economy, mental health, domestic abuse and non-coronavirus treatments.
“The government must have made this analysis, made this assessment: let’s look at it and make our own judgments,” he said.
