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Keir Starmer challenges Boris Johnson to do 50 push ups at next PMQs

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Keir Starmer has challenged Boris Johnson to do 50 push ups at next week’s PMQs.

It comes after the Prime Minister apparently dropped to the floor to demonstrate his health and vigour during an interview published over the weekend.

Asked if he could do more than one push-up, the Labour leader said: “I can.

“In fact I was thinking that at this week’s PMQs the first question should be, you know, first to 50.”

The PM faced fresh claims of mixed messaging after he put on a show of strength – at the same time as begging overconfident people not to break social distancing rules.

The PM, whose bout with Covid-19 brought him close to death, told the Mail on Sunday: “I say to those people who are going out in large groups.

“You may think that you are immortal, that you won’t be a sufferer, but the bug you carry can kill your family and friends.”


He then started doing press-ups in his office during an interview with the Mail on Sunday and said he is one of “many, many people” who “made a very full and healthy recovery”.

“I’m as fit as a butcher’s dog now,” he said.

Mr Starmer went on to accuse Mr Johnson of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ and losing control of the messaging on coronavirus.

“I think the Prime Minister has been asleep at the wheel, he has been slow, the comms, the communications has been terrible,” Mr Starmer told Good Morning Britain.


“It began to break down frankly when Dominic Cummings put forward a ridiculous defence of what he had done in the north east.” 

He added: “They’re losing control of the messaging.”



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