The Prime Minister attacked Labour’s Keir Starmer at PMQs for calling for a “short, sharp” two-week shutdown – yet pointedly refused to rule out doing it himself

Boris Johnson today warned “I rule out nothing” in a furious clash over whether he will introduce a two-week circuit-breaker lockdown.

Tempers flared after Keir Starmer broke his truce with the government and demanded a stay-at-home order lasting two to three weeks.

In angry exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Tory leader accused his Labour rival of “opportunism” and vice versa.

And Mr Johnson claimed his three-tier local lockdown system is the “right way forward” – despite his scientific advisers shortlisting five urgent interventions, including a circuit-break, three weeks ago.

Yet in comments right at the end of the 10-minute clash, the Prime Minister admitted he was not actually ruling out a circuit-break lockdown himself.