Boris Thanks 750,000 In Army Of Kindness

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- Giles Sheldrick

Boris Johnson last night thanked the army of volunteers who have come to the aid of the NHS.

The Prime Minister paid tribute to 20,000 former members of staff who have come “back to the colours” and another 750,000 people who have volunteered to help out.

Speaking from his Downing Street flat where he is in isolation after coming down with the virus, he said: “Thank you to everybody who’s now coming back into the NHS in such huge numbers. It’s the most amazing thing.

“We are going to do it. We are going to do it together. I think one thing this crisis has already proved, is that there is such a thing as society.”

Less than a week after a call was issued by the NHS, the UK has now assembled the biggest charity workforce since the Second World War.

The extraordinary response has seen the Royal Voluntary Service recruit three times its initial target.

Unpaid workers will now help deliver essentials, transport patients and NHS equipment, and check in on those blighted by loneliness because of the Government-enforced lockdown.