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Piers Morgan grills Keir Starmer on school closures
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced all primary and secondary schools would close from January 5 on Monday, as he delivered the news of a third national lockdown. Schools have moved to remote learning for all students, with the timeline on the return to the classroom having been kept very vague by the Government. On the announcement of closing schools, Mr Johnson said: “I want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe to children. The problem is that schools may nonetheless act as vectors for transmission, causing the virus to spread between households.”