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Starmer said: “Everybody wants children back in schools. Nobody would argue with that. Of course that’s what we all want.
“I don’t want to call for the closure of schools tomorrow morning and add to the chaos, but we do need to recognise that it’s inevitable that more schools will close, and we need a plan in place to deal with that. But it can only be part of a wider strategy that has a national lockdown in place in the next 24 hours. The prime minister is hinting at it, but he’s not doing it. And we can’t afford that delay again.”
Starmer said he was not calling for all schools to close, explaining that should be the “last resort, not the first resort”. In an apparent reference to tier 3 areas where non-essential shops were still allowed to open, he added: “We can’t have retail open in some places and schools closed.”
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The Labour Party are not calling for schools to remain closed, as far as I can tell. There seems to have been a total abdication of responsibility from the party... at a time you could quite fairly characterise as a moment of national crisis. They should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with parents, teachers and unions but instead they seem to be calling for the closure of zoos (?!).