Prime minister’s former adviser posts screengrab purporting to be from Johnson lambasting health department over testing

Starmer says if the PM put as much effort into protecting borders as he does into coming up with “ridiculous excuses”, we would be opening up next week.

He urges the PM to drop the traffic light system, secure the borders and save the British summer.

Starmer says the rate of the Delta variant is higher here than in other countries. If the border policy is so strong, why is that?

Johnson says Labour should pulp its document, which is wrong about the Delta variant. The government put India on the red list on 23 April, before the Delta variant was even identified, he says.

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