Boris Johnson shuts down Keir Starmer when he challenged gov u-turn to keep schools closed

Boris Johnson urged the Labour Party leader to make up his mind on whether he supports pupils staying home until September or not.

Sir Keir Starmer challenged the Government's U-turn after the Secretary of Education admitted not all primary school students would be able to head back to class before the autumn.

But Mr Johnson insisted he had discussed the plans with Sir Keir, which led the Prime Minister to shut down his opponent: "Last week he was telling the House it was not safe yet to send the kids back to school.

This week he’s saying not enough kids are going back to school. I really think he needs to make up his mind."

The Prime Minister continued: "Since he’s so fond of these international comparisons, he should know there are some countries in Europe where no primary school kids are going back to school.

"And we are being extremely cautious in our approach, we are following the plan that we set out and I think the people of this country will want to follow it.

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[eddieberriman]

So, where was the erm... Shutdown then?

[philipdear]

Shut down in the Sun means Starmer Destroyed bumbling Boris again Boris will need to up his game as a top barrister who does this homework is a much more formidable opponent than that Corbin cretin

[noname-niqi]

The sun take your propaganda somewhere else.

[georged]

Nice to see the Sun being as biased as ever.

[adsharma]

Boris: EU are doing much worse than us. They're not opening even primary schools

Also Boris: It's not fair to compare UK's fatality numbers to the EU

[Pluggers-fwmi]

Good to see sane people in the comments! Bojo the clown!

[farrahpal]

Hmmmm I think the title needs to be changed here to starmer shuts johnson down.

[haha]

Boris didn't even answer the question, as usual.

[noz]

Wouldn’t trust these politicians to run my bath!

[stevecrowe]

Imagine not thinking the Sun is Tory biased with a video title like that.

[nasthewild]

Lol what shut down? This was a prime example of Boris dodging questions like he so often does when he is put on the spot for his mistakes

[IONS-LEGACY]

The Sun might aswell change their logo from red to blue.

[Hazzo]

The sun doesn't seem to be able to read the situation

[Mod-rwcw]

BOZ couldn't even shutdown a computer never mind Starmer!

[mikehunt]

Most biased video title I’ve ever seen

[EyeMixMusic]

"Boris Johnson responds with hot air when Keir Starmer challenges embarrassing gov u-turn"
*title fixed*

[davewalker]

Windrush. Treason may should be in jail for what she did to those people!

[TheBeaumarisEcho]

Keir Starmer, in charge of the CPS when Saville got away with it, ignored the grooming in the North, and now making himself known in politics after riding in on a "safe seat" I cannot trust him!

[gergana]

bit biased in the title, aren't we?

[Tom-jtec]

Since when did running away from a question become known as "shutting down"? 🤔