Sir Keir, speaking to broadcasters at a vaccine centre in Newham, east London, called the vaccination drive a “national effort” in which “we all have to put our shoulder to the wheel”. “It is why we’ve launched this campaign for volunteers to come forward – we’ve got 500,000 members in the Labour Party, we’ve got millions of trade unionists and our campaign today is to say to them: play your part, step up, put aside your differences, we need volunteers,” he added. “If you look at the set-up here, you’ve got people administering the jab but you’ve also got to get people here, you’ve got to get the information to them, steward them in, and volunteers can do all that.”