Government WILL try to make Covid vaccines COMPULSORY for care home staff, Matt Hancock confirms

Ministers will push for coronavirus vaccines to become mandatory for care home staff, Matt Hancock confirmed today.

The Health Secretary argued workers have a ‘duty of care’ because elderly residents are most at risk of dying from the virus.

Department of Health chiefs will test the water on the controversial move, launching a five-week consultation on the proposal.

Mr Hancock said industry bosses have called for ‘no jab, no job’ policies and that the jabs were ‘our route out of this pandemic’.

But critics have attacked the plans — which were first leaked three weeks ago. They say they could get a dangerous precedent.