Keir Starmer said vital lessons were not being learned from the record 100,000 death toll on the Prime Minister’s watch as he accused Johnson of failings.Confronting Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions Starmer said: “Behind every death is a grieving family.
The question on everyone’s lips this morning is why?”Johnson took a hammering from opposition leaders in the Commons with the SNP’s Ian Blackford accusing him of “a lack of leadership, last minute u-turns” and a death toll that was the ‘legacy of poor decisions”.Amid warnings from scientists that the UK death toll could rise by another 50,000 within months Johnson could only say there were “no easy answers”.He added: “I and the Government take full responsibility for all the actions.