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'Worst days of Thatcher' back as Chancellor abandons workers while Covid cases soar
by Ben Chacko and Bethany Rielly
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds

BRITAIN “must resist” increasing calls to “learn to live with” coronavirus, a leading left MP warned yesterday as global deaths hit one million.

Leeds East MP Richard Burgon, who is secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs, said: “Other countries have driven coronavirus cases down to incredibly low levels. With a different strategy, we can do this too — and we must, in order to protect lives and livelihoods.”

The campaign group has called for adoption of a zero-Covid strategy, as was successful in largely eliminating the virus in countries including China, Vietnam and New Zealand.

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