Tag: COVID-19 Coronavirus

David Lammy said “thousands" will have died because of Cummings' "apathy and arrogance” at the start of the pandemic.

The 10k race comes after tens of thousands unmasked and cheering football and tennis fans filled Wimbledon this summer.

“His careless words have insulted every man, woman and child who has followed the rules and stayed at home to protect others,” a Lib Dem spokeswoman said.

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the cross-party report is more evidence of the Tories’ failures during the pandemic that she says “saw eye-watering sums of taxpayers’ money wasted on unsafe PPE and contracts handed out to their mates”.

There were cheers from the crowd as she said "the doctors were hung".

A boycott would be an embarrassment for Boris Johnson, who will hope he can get his agenda on track and unify the party after coronavirus forced 2020’s conference online and caused divisions among his ranks.

"There is no one in the country who think the government’s border policy worked to prevent the Delta variant spread in the UK," Yvette Cooper said.

US citizens have been warned against travel to the UK due to spiralling coronavirus cases.

“There are max 3 million in this country aged over 80," he said. “It shows we don’t go for nationwide lockdown.”