UK lawmakers to renew govt's contentious COVID-19 powers
LONDON – British lawmakers were set Wednesday to renew the government’s sweeping powers to impose emergency restrictions to curb the coronavirus pandemic, though many slammed the way Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative administration has used them.Legislators are increasingly unhappy about the government’s handling of the pandemic, which has seen Britain go from a national lockdown imposed in March to a patchwork of local measures of varying stringency.
Along the way, Britain's official virus death toll has reached more than 42,000 — the highest in Europe — and the country is seeing a second spike in new daily cases.But there is little lawmakers can do about the government's response because of the powers that Parliament granted the.
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