Mayor: Brother would still be alive if PM had done a circuit-breaker

LIVERPOOL Mayor Joe Anderson says his brother may still have been alive had the Government heeded the calls for a two-week lockdown in late September.

Bill Anderson died of Covid-19 in an intensive care unit last month aged 70.

The city is now the centre of Boris Johnson’s Moonshot testing experiment.

Mr Anderson said: “My people in this city are dying, 94 people have died in the last seven days. My brother died three weeks ago.

“I believe if we’d had a circuit breaker six weeks ago he probably would not have died. The Government say

GRIEF Joe Anderson, left, with his late brother Bill they are following the medical advice and then when SAGE says we need a circuit breaker and this is getting out of control, the Government ridicules people like me, like Keir Starmer, for calling for a circuit-breaker.

“I take no satisfaction in saying somebody has to be held accountable for the failure. But somebody has.”

Mr Anderson also lost a colleague this week when Labour councillor Richard McLinden died of Covid-19.

He said: “He was a servant of Liverpool and chaired our select committee. As we speak, people are dying. People are being run ragged on our ICU wards.”