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Keir Starmer – Covid restrictions ‘may not be tough enough’

Sir Keir Starmer was in the hot seat this morning as the latest of Andrew Marr’s series of interviews with the major party leaders. Marr’s first question to Starmer was about the government’s heightened Tier 5 restrictions. The conversation comes at a time when the UK’s official Covid-19 death toll has passed 80,000, and with the Office for National Statistics reporting figures showing that as many as one in 50 people have had the virus over the last week of 2020. Marr asked if the restrictions were tough enough to slow the spread:

KS: They are tough, and they’re necessary… They may not be tough enough, but in a sense I think the most important thing is for people to get that message [to] stay at home… I would like to see the Prime Minister out there every day with a press conference making sure that that message is absolutely getting through.