Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Government's handling of the pandemic, from the outbreak to the present day.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday he said: "The Government was too slow to enter the lockdown. It has been too slow to increase the number of people being tested. It has been too slow in getting NHS staff the critical equipment they need to keep them safe. We need to make sure these mistakes are not repeated.

"And this week has exposed how the Government has been too slow to respond to the growing emergency in our social care services."

He also called for the Government to begin "careful" preparations to exit lockdown measures, adding: