When @Keir_Starmer saw the SAGE evidence he called for a short circuit breaker over half term to fix the test and trace shambles. @BorisJohnson ridiculed it. @RishiSunak blocked it. Now they’re briefing newspapers overnight that England faces a much harder lockdown #incompetence

PM too slow to lock down in March. Stubborn refusal to accept test & trace failure. Millions of people excluded from economic support. Shambolic tier system in England. Inability to align economic measures with public health measures. Billions wasted on dodgy procurement.

Refusal to work with devolved administrations effectively. Refusal to take up our @UKLabour to work with them to get this right for the benefit of everyone and in the national interest. The incompetence, the arrogance, the failures. It didn’t have to be like this.