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Speaker blasts Boris again over lockdown announcement

15 June 2021

7:10 AM

15 June 2021

7:10 AM

The government has just suffered a further verbal drubbing for the way it announced it would be delaying the roadmap out of Covid restrictions.

Matt Hancock gave a statement in the Commons tonight, a couple of hours after the Prime Minister announced all the details of the delay. Before he spoke, though, he had to listen to a still-angry Speaker explaining why this was so unacceptable.

Hoyle once again described the government’s behaviour as ‘entirely unacceptable’, adding that it was ‘disrespectful to the House and to our constituents’.

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