The Labour Party has blamed the delay to the final lockdown lifting on Boris Johnson’s failure to properly protect our borders.
Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement on lockdown restrictions continuing after 21 June, said:
“The only reason this delay is being introduced is because the Conservatives failed to secure the country’s borders and a new variant from overseas was allowed to take hold; and failed to put in measures like proper sick pay support and surge vaccinations when needed.
“The British people did their bit by supporting the vaccine programme and getting vaccinated, but they have been let down by ministerial incompetence and indecision.”
Deputy leader Angela Rayner tweeted during the press conference that
“We would be lifting restrictions on June 21st as planned if Boris Johnson had put India on the red list at the same time as Pakistan and Bangladesh were put on the red list.
Devastating news for businesses who will suffer even more now because of the PM’s failure to act.”
