I know there is growing anxiety about the spread of the coronavirus, the severe pressures on our National Health Service and the risk to people’s lives.
Labour has supported the social distancing measures that have been introduced.
However, in these extraordinary times, the Government must now set out further compliance measures, such as those introduced in other countries.
These are vital days in the battle against the coronavirus.
Any additional measures should sit alongside a national plan of action to support people to cope, including the most vulnerable and the self-employed.
Ministers should provide an update on this at this afternoon’s press conference and if they choose not to implement additional measures, then they should explain why.
These decisions are not easily made, but they are now necessary. We all have a duty to do what we can to protect the nation’s health and to save people’s lives. I hope the Government will act.
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