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Starmer warns of ‘chaos’ over England unlocking

inisters had been wrong to lift all restrictions in England on Monday and the government had lost control of the virus, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, said, calling for an urgent rethink as cases soared. About one in six areas in England were this week reporting their highest rates of new Covid-19 cases since comparable records began last summer, when mass testing first

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