Sir Keir Starmer's first question at #PMQs
How does the government intend to get from the current rate of 18000 a day to 100000 a day.
Dominic Raab corrects him to say capacity is 40,000.
Starmer: I didn't need correcting, I gave the number of actual tests being carried out
How does the government intend to get from the current rate of 18000 a day to 100000 a day.
Dominic Raab corrects him to say capacity is 40,000.
Starmer: I didn't need correcting, I gave the number of actual tests being carried out
Makes the point that the UK is only testing at half the capacity it claims to have.
"If a care worker has symptoms they have to self isolate. To get a test they get told to travel to a test centre many miles away. There is an obvious problem with that system."
"If a care worker has symptoms they have to self isolate. To get a test they get told to travel to a test centre many miles away. There is an obvious problem with that system."
Starmer: "How many NHS Workers have now died from the Coronavirus, how many care workers have died from coronavirus?"
Raab: 69 within the NHS, but he has no figures for care workers.
Starmer warns he'll ask the same question next week.
Raab: 69 within the NHS, but he has no figures for care workers.
Starmer warns he'll ask the same question next week.
"Somethings going wrong, and there's a pattern emerging here..."
Keir Starmer says the government has been slow to react at all stages of the outbreak. #PMQs
Raab says 3000 of 8000 offers of PPE from UK business have been accepted subject to meeting appropriate standards
Keir Starmer says the government has been slow to react at all stages of the outbreak. #PMQs
Raab says 3000 of 8000 offers of PPE from UK business have been accepted subject to meeting appropriate standards