A BRADFORD community leader says another national lockdown may be needed to stop Covid variants, adding it’s the government’s responsibility to stop them coming into the UK.

Noreen Khan, the director of Neesie, says the borders should have been shut after news of the Indian variant coming into the UK ‘has spread like wildfire’.

She believes local lockdowns do not work and also talked about the possibility of another national lockdown.

Speaking on today’s Good Morning Britain, she said: “It’s a constant racialisation of the lockdown. Local lockdowns don’t work.

“If they worked in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

 

“Maybe a harsher method of a national lockdown will be needed, just to stop everything.

“That’s our part.

“Where is the accountability from the government to shut the borders?

“We’re an island, we could have protected ourselves.

“Instead of keep locking us down and allowing other variants to come into this country and spread like wildfire and keeping us behind closed doors is not the answer.

“We should have shut the borders earlier. Intelligence services should have picked up on this earlier.”