Leader of the British Labor Party Cyrus Starmer called on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson play with human lives and make a deal with EU this week as a new mutations of the coronavirus. This is reported on the page BBC News in Twitter .
“He [Johnson] has to make the deal he promised. He has to do it this week,” Starmer said. The politician stressed that the conclusion of the deal is not a “game of balancing on the brink”, but a question of human lives. “People need a deal. They are waiting for it. And the deal must be concluded,” he said.
The UK officially left the European Union on 1 February. By the end of 2020, the parties agreed on a transitional period during which most of the EU laws will continue to operate in the United Kingdom, including trade rules. Before the end of the transition period, Brussels and London had to agree on the format of future relations and conclude a new trade agreement. If the parties fail to reach an agreement by the end of December, the UK will no longer be part of the common European market, which will lead to the introduction of customs borders between the country and the EU.
UK Health Minister Matthew Hancock December 14 reported that a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 that spreads faster than the original form. The virus is more easily transmitted from person to person and therefore more contagious, he said.