Labour responds to sudden cabinet delay

Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, said:

“The Government is paralysed by its own chaos and incompetence and the British public are paying the price. This shambles cannot continue. 

“What confidence can the public have that the Conservatives are acting in the national interest, when they can’t agree a plan for Covid?

“It is clear the Prime Minister was trying to declare victory before the war is over, simply to distract from the police knocking at the door of Number 10. 

“Labour published our plan for living well with Covid in January. It would prepare us for new variants and secure our lives, livelihoods and liberties. If the Conservatives are too incompetent to agree their own plan, they are welcome to use ours.”