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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reappeared in Parliament on Wednesday, after more than a month of absence, and has implicitly recognized that the British Government could have been more effective in dealing with the coronavirus, which has been charged until the date 29,427 deaths, the highest number in Europe.

"This is not the time to make international comparisons ," Johnson warned before the House of Commons, meeting under the strict rules of social distance and with the majority of the deputies intervening by teleconference. "There will be time to look back and determine if something went wrong."

It was Johnson's first confrontation with the new opposition leader, Keir Starmer , who asserted his reputation as a fiscal incisor from the outset: "How can you say yourself that we have had an apparent success in the fight against the epidemic When are we the first European country by number of deaths and the second in the world (after the United States)? "

Starmer harshly criticized the "slowness" of the Government on all fronts: "We have been slow in imposing confinement, slow with tests on the population , slow with protection for health personnel and finally slow with the problem in the residences of the elderly. "

Hesitantly and without his usual poise, Johnson threw balls out and left open the possibility of an investigation into the strategy for the coronavirus . "What I can say is that in each phase we make the decisions we make based on two principles: save lives and protect the National Health System (NHS)," said the 'premier'.

Johnson tried to divert attention to the future and announced that during the weekend his plans for the "de-escalation" of the epidemic, which could start from next Monday, will be made public. "The biggest mistake we could make is to lift the containment too soon," he warned. "That could open the doors to a second wave and cause an economic disaster."

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