a leader accustomed to moving with
supreme caution
but a leader prepared to strike at speed
when he senses the moment the government
has not got a credible plan
to slow infections it has lost
control of the virus more at ease in
recent months critiquing the government
secure stamina has now issued a bold
challenge
a demand for a two to three week
coronavirus circuit break
if we act now if we follow the science
and break the circuit
we can get this virus under control
if we don't we could sleep walk into a
long
and bleak winter that choice
is now for the prime minister to make
i urge him to do so sakirstama's idea is
taken
straight from government scientists it
would mean
working from home when you can no mixing
between
households except for people in support
bubbles
all pubs bars and restaurants would be
closed but
with compensation and schools would
remain
open although the circuit break would
take place in part
over the autumn half term allies of
sakya stamina say he's run out of road
on coronavirus
after months of picking apart boris
johnson's approach
they say he has to put his own ideas on
the table
and so newsnite understands that the
labour leader has held
lengthy discussions with the
government's chief scientific advisors
and now he's adopted one of their
central ideas
what kirsten was trying to do is act in
the national interest that's what we've
done all along we've said we'll support
the government
where it's appropriate to but what the
government have done in the last you
know couple of days if they've not
followed that scientific advice
that's what we're really concerned about
because the scientific advisor is saying
unless we do more than what the
government has suggested and announced
in the last couple of days
then actually we're going to have to
take even stringent measures which are
going to
cause excess deaths and it's going to
cause economic damage in the long run
so that's why i care stamina said today
that boris johnson should listen to the
scientific advice
have a national circuit breaker now give
the financial support and package to
make it happen
and then hopefully that means that
businesses and local areas can get that
our number down
and that we can get on top of this virus
a tory commentator
believes this is a significant move it
makes it
harder for boris johnson to do this now
were he so minded because if he does
kirsten
will say well told you so that was our
idea
and you know i suspect that this move
any such move would be
vigorously resisted by the chancellor of
the exchequer and the growing voices on
the tory benches
who want you know a different sort of
policy one that stresses
helping livelihoods more um
and boosting the economy rather than
just saving lives
after a bumpy period for boris johnson a
former advisor to david cameron
says the prime minister would be wise to
reflect
on his number 10 operation my advice
would be
take it slow bring all people around you
we had a four o'clock meeting
every afternoon with the chancellor um
the the
business chiefs in the house of commons
and the lords the key people william
hagan the government
and we would sit down and work out the
decisions and then that would be a
decision of a group
that was held and i think there is a
sense of a bit of drift
u-turns maybe not the always the best
communication
and he needs to win back the trust of
his party and
and the public to a certain extent are
we doing too little too late prime
minister
setting a fast pace but boris johnson
appears to be
in no rush for now to adopt the labour
blueprint