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No10 rebuffs 24-hour vaccine drive as there's 'not a clamour for late-night appointments'

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Downing Street has rebuffed calls for a 24-hour vaccine programme for now - because “there’s not a clamour for appointments late into the night”.

Keir Starmer today said there must be a “24 hours a day, seven days a week" vaccination programme in the “biggest peacetime project in our history”.

But the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, Allegra Stratton, said that wouldn’t be appropriate at the moment when most recipients are over 80 years old.

Critics also say there is not enough capacity in the system to give jabs round the clock. However, she did not rule out a day-and-night vaccine programme in future stages.

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