Starmer urges 500k daily vaccination target, not pushing Plan B. An interesting approach - if vaccination rates don't improve and things continue to worsen, he can link the need for Plan B to poor execution of Plan A.
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Sir Keir Starmer has said the government’s plan A is “failing”. He said the government should respond by beefing up the booster vaccination programme, aiming for 500,000 vaccines to be delivered a day.
Echoing what Jonathan Ashworth said in the Commons earlier (see 11.48am), Starmer said:
"The government said that the vaccine would be the security wall against the virus and now the government is letting that wall crumble.
We’ve seen those that most need it not able to get the jab they need. Only. I think, 17% of children have got the vaccine. And the booster programme has slowed down so much that at this rate we’re not going to complete it until spring of next year.
So the government needs to change these, it needs to get a grip. I think it needs to drive those numbers up to at least 500,000 vaccines a day. And that can be done, I think, by using community pharmacists ... pop-up centres for vaccines, and mobilising those retired health workers as we did before."
Asked if it was time for plan B, Starmer said asking about plan A or plan B was the wrong focus. He went on:
"The question we need to ask is why is plan A failing? And it’s failing because the government has allowed that wall of the vaccine to crumble."
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