“In the worst of times, indecision can be fatal.Every time there’s a big decision to make, Boris Johnson gets there too late.” Labour leader Kier starmer said during his hard hitting speech on “securing the economy for families during lockdown this morning.
Starmer, listing the many times Boris Johnson “got there too late”, said that his “indecision costs lives and British jobs”.
While people will be forgiving of the challenges,”they know serial incompetence and they know when a Prime Minister simply isn’t up to the job,” he added.
Starmer also said he wanted the government to protect more people’s money as a new lockdown bites by stopping council tax rises, preventing any cut to welfare payments, extending a ban on evictions and by handing key workers a pay rise.
He also called for a “new national contract” while people stay at home again, suggesting the vaccine rollout should be 24/7.
“In return, the Government delivers on their priorities,” he adds. “The first priority is to get Britain vaccinated.”
People should “roll out our sleeves, quite literally” and volunteer to help, as well as make sure they get the jab he told the audience.
Meanwhile he suggested the government should tighten the lockdown restrictions within the next 24 hours.
“I think we are going to have to look in the next 24 hours or so, what are the other measures that would be put in place … and then all pull together to support those measures if they’re needed because the numbers, as everybody knows, are still heading in the wrong direction.”
After Covid he wanted Britain to be “the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in” and that he would be setting out his vision for “that better future” in the months ahead.
