Competing Pressures Build on U.K.’s Johnson as Covid Surges
- Prime minister pushing to kick-start economy in deep recession
- U.K. coronavirus cases jumped 64% to three-month high Sunday
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Two of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers laid bare the competing pressures facing the U.K. government as it attempts to drag the economy out of its worst recession in at least a century without triggering a new wave of coronavirus infections.
Hours after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Sunday reiterated the government’s push to “get people back to work” and lamented the damage done by locking down the economy, Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that a recent spike in coronavirus cases among young people could “lead to the sort of problems that we saw earlier in the year.”