COMPULSORY Covid-19 vaccines for NHS workers will “deepen the staffing black hole” in health services, health union GMB warned after Labour helped Boris Johnson get the measure through the Commons.

Last night, former party leader Jeremy Corbyn was joined by 22 Labour rebels and 61 Tory dissenters in rejecting the move to impose mandatory jabs for NHS and non-residential social care staff from April. 

Shadow culture minister Rachael Maskell and Labour parliamentary private secretary Mick Whitley resigned from the party’s front bench to oppose the measure, but it passed by 385 votes to 100 after leader Sir Keir Starmer supported it.