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British Opposition Leader Calls for Three-week 'Circuit Breaker' Lockdown

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   Britain's opposition Labor Party Leader Keir Starmer on Tuesday called
   on the government to implement a three-week temporary nationwide
   "circuit breaker" lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 throughout
   Britain.

   Starmer made the proposal in a speech in London, one day after Prime
   Minister Boris Johnson introduced his three-tiered regional alert plan
   designed to simplify and standardize the variety of COVID-related
   restrictions that have been imposed around the country.

   But Starmer said Britain is in a decisive moment in the fight against
   the virus and "there's no longer time to give this prime minister the
   benefit of the doubt."

   "This was not inevitable, but it is now necessary," he said,
   acknowledging that the restrictions are largely unpopular.

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