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The former chancellor is campaigning in Teeside following last night's Tory leadership debate

Labour has criticised Boris Johnson after reports said he had failed to attend recent Cobra meetings.

Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, said:

Boris Johnson has gone missing in action again. He's back to his old tricks of skipping important Cobra meetings. Where's the plan for the delivery of essential services and how people will be kept safe at work, on transport, in schools, hospitals and care homes?

The public will have no confidence in this zombie Conservative government responding swiftly and decisively to this national emergency as this disgraced prime minister prepares to party while Britain boils. If he still can't take the responsibility of the job, he should leave right now.