Government seeks a quarter of a million volunteers to help the NHS
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said people would be asked to do a variety of roles.
The appeal for a quarter of a million volunteers to create a new NHS - a National Help Service to support those forced to stay locked in their homes for the next three months - reinforces the idea that Britain is at war with the coronavirus. So too the news that the army is turning London's Excel centre - normally home to Crufts & the Boat Show - into a 4000 bed field hospital.
In any war it is the instinct of many to get behind the national endeavour. Others, though, are聽questioning whether their leaders are making the right decisions.
(Image: Robert Jenrick. Credit: AFP)
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