March 19, 2024
We can go to restaurants but not the office! Malcolm Rifkind orders Brits back to work
"If we are allowed to go to restaurants and cafés why not work in your normal circumstances and be with your colleagues daily."
“If we are allowed to go to restaurants and cafés why not work in your normal circumstances and be with your colleagues daily.”

BORIS JOHNSON was warned Britons must head back to the workplace to limit the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on local businesses relying on workers for customers.

Boris Johnson is expected to unveil his plans for the next stage of the recovery plans and will clarify the Government’s position on working from home. While thousands of Britons have already returned to their workplace, the Prime Minister earlier this week urged those who can to continue with their arrangements from home. But former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind told Good Morning Britain Mr Johnson must send people back to the workplace in a bid to help local businesses recover from the coronavirus lockdown.

Sir Malcolm said: “I’m very, very strongly in support of the argument that people should go back to work unless they have particular personal or family reasons why that’s inappropriate.

“How can the Government hope to encourage people to go back to a sense of normality in this country if the vast majority of civil servants are not in the office where they normally work?

“Partly is setting an example and partly, also, is having very damaging impact on the economy, particularly local shops and cafés in central London and central parts of every city in the UK, where not just public servants but private employees are not in their normal place of work.”

Sir Malcolm also suggested there is an inconsistency in the Government’s strategy, noting Britons are now free to eat out but cannot work in their usual workplace.

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