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Starmer: Johnson has head in sand over coronavirus testing crisis
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street yesterday

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the Prime Minister today of “pretending there isn’t a problem” with the scandal-hit coronavirus testing regime.

During Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir asked Boris Johnson why he had said on Tuesday that the test-and-trace scheme has “very little or nothing” to do with the spread of Covid-19, after previously hailing it as a game-changer and a “world-beating” system.

He added: “Both positions cannot be right — which one is it, Prime Minister?”

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