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Government press briefings “nothing more than self serving propaganda” – Stelling

Football pundit Jeff Stelling has hit out at the government for turning the daily press briefings into “self-serving propaganda”.

The Sky Sports TV host hurled a barrage of abuse towards the Conservative Party after Boris Johnson finished addressing the nation last night.

The PM promised to produce a “road map, a menu of options” explaining how to get the economy moving and children back to school while still suppressing the disease’s spread.

Testing is a key part of the strategy in any effort to ease restrictions, and the public may find out today if the Government reached its target of carrying out 100,000-a-day by the end of Thursday.

But one expert dismissed the goal as a “PR stunt”, while another suggested austerity policies of previous Conservative governments had hampered the testing regime.

And in a surprise political outburst Stelling also piled on, saying the government had got its response “horrifically wrong” and is now “desperately to cover its tracks”.

He tweeted:

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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