Coronavirus: PM accused of misleading Commons on care homes advice - and urged to return to correct himself Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urges the PM to "accept that the government was too slow to protect people in care homes". PM pressed over 10,000 'unexplained deaths' Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading the House of Commons about government advice that people in care homes were "very unlikely" to contract coronavirus. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has written to the prime minister urging him to return to the House of Commons to "recognise" that this had been government advice earlier this year. During Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, Sir Keir highlighted official figures that showed deaths in care homes made up more than 40% of the overall number of recent COVID-19 deaths. The Labour leader told MPs: "Earlier this year, and until 12 March, the government's own official advice was, and I'm quoting from it, 'it remains very unlikely that people receiving care in a care home will become infected'." Sir Keir urged Mr Johnson, who today announced a further £600m for infection control in care homes, to "accept that the government was too slow to protect people in care homes". The prime minister replied that it "wasn't true that the advice said that" and added: "We brought the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown." Labour sources later circulated a link to a government webpage, which relates "guidance for social or community care and residential settings on COVID-19".
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